A portion of the Cedar River Trail will close later this month so that the county can repair a levee on the Cedar River before the next flood season.

The levee protects State Route 169 and other public infrastructure and was damaged during wintertime flooding.

King County will close the Cedar River Trail from Aug. 16 to Sept. 3 while the repair work is under way.

The trail will close to all use between 154th Place Southeast and 175th Avenue Southeast, just east of Renton’s Ron Regis Park. The trail will be closed 24 hours a day, and there will be no flagged reroute during construction.

Work on the 85-foot-long section of levee will include adding large boulders to stabilize the base of the riverbank and adding large wood to help deflect flows from the bank and to improve habitat.

The project, estimated to cost $150,000, is critical to protecting State Route 169, a nearby fiber optics cable and the Cedar River Trail, which stretches 17.3 miles from the river’s mouth at Lake Washington upstream to Landsburg, at the boundary of the City of Seattle’s Cedar River Watershed.

For project information contact Kate Akyuz, King County Water and Land Division, 206-263-4859, or Robert Nunnenkamp, King County Parks Division, 206-263-6207.