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August 17, 2026 (Cover Photo Credit: City of Pocatello)
The City of Pocatello’s Road Construction & Traffic Report for the week of August 17, 2026, has been published and may be read here.
Highlights include:
- Street sweepers are currently performing their regular sweeping schedule.
- The Street Services crew will be patching potholes and curb lines throughout the City.
- Traffic Operations crews are repainting crosswalks throughout the City.
- Crews will be jetting and cleaning sewer mainlines throughout the City.
- Street Services will be fog sealing streets around the city; the schedule may be seen here.
- Street Services will be milling and paving sections of S 6th Ave. and Howard Ave.
- Work continues on the water mainline replacement project on Gray Ave. and Howard Ave. between West Alameda Rd. and West Eldredge Rd.
- McKinley Avenue between Eldredge Avenue and Alameda Road will be closed for water line work.
- Park Avenue and the alley east between East Oak Street and Elm Street will be closed late this week and all of next week for water and sewer work.
- Ravine Drive between Foothill Boulevard and Riverside Drive will be closed for sewer line work.
- East Carter Street between South 11th Avenue and East Oak Avenue will be closed for the installation of a new water main.
- Hiline Road (Jefferson Avenue) between East Griffith Road and Pearl Street will be closed for road base work.
- Demolition of the Monarch Building continues.
- Work continues on the Benton Street Bridge over the Portneuf River. West Benton Street remains closed between South Hayes Avenue and South Grant Avenue. Construction is anticipated to be finished by the end of September, weather and other unforeseen conditions permitting.
- The Idaho State University New Student March through the Arch will take place on Friday, August 21, 2026, beginning at 5:45 PM. Streets affected include Martin Luther King Jr Way and South 8th Avenue.
- Zoo Idaho’s Poky Prowl Fun Run will be held on Saturday, August 22, 2026
- 2nd Avenue between Carter Street and Lovejoy Street, Carter Street between 1st Avenue and 2nd Avenue, and Lovejoy Street between 1st Avenue and 2nd Avenue, will be closed from 4 PM to 9 PM on Saturday, August 22, for the Museum of Clean’s Potato Festival.
- South Garfield Avenue between Center Street and West Lewis Street will be closed from 2 PM to 9 PM on Mondays for Curbside Cravings.
- South Garfield Avenue between Center Street and West Lewis Street will be closed from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM on Wednesdays for the Bannock Civitan Club’s Revive @ 5 Summer Concerts.
- South Garfield Avenue between Center Street and West Lewis Street will be closed from 6 AM to 3 PM every Saturday for the Portneuf Valley Farmers Market.
