Workers are putting on the finishing touches to the new 750-foot pedestrian bridge at the Dungeness River Audubon Center this week.

Randy Johnson, habitat program manager for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, said that a few relatively minor tasks remain to completing the bridge, a section of the Olympic Discovery Trail that was closed in February after flooding damaged the old creosoted railroad trestle.

Johnson said four floods have “rumbled down” the Dungeness River since February: one that damaged the trestle and three since the new bridge has been under construction.

During the floods, the river has migrated 230 feet west, Johnson said. “Had the trestle not been removed, at least 15 pile bents — 75 creosoted piling, creosoted timbers and bridge decking — would have been knocked down and strewn all the way from the Railroad Bridge Park to Dungeness Bay,” he said.

The construction access road is being removed and by the end of Tuesday, Dec. 15, both floodplain channels were to have been flowing free again, Johnson said.