NAHANT – The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) granted beachgoers one more week of sun and sand with its decision to postpone construction that originally would have closed the parking lot at Long Beach after Labor Day.Instead, Commissioner Edward Lambert will wait until Sept. 10 to close the lot, which will leave only the Tides Restaurant back parking lot open until the whole lot re-opens next Memorial Day.?Commissioner Lambert felt it would be good policy to allow the beach to stay open an additional week,” said Project Engineer James Caputo.Caputo said the plan originally called for the parking lot to be closed this summer, but it was “rearranged” to keep the lot open.Once the lot is closed, it will become a work zone so crews can start the process of constructing a temporary roadway through the parking lot that will serve traffic going from Nahant to Lynn while a median is being built on the actual roadway. The temporary roadway will be completed for use at the end of October, and will be used until the median is completed in the spring. The new median that will be built along the causeway will be set with LED lights and a guardrail, said Caputo.?Come Memorial Day, people will start to get a sense of the true roadway,” said Caputo.Caputo said after Memorial Day, the only parts of the project left will be to re-pave the road, re-do the boat ramp in the DCR maintenance yard and finish up the landscaping of the parking lot with bushes, shrubs and rock gardens. Caputo said the entire project will be finished Nov. 4, 2013.Caputo said the lot was closed all of last winter. “I know it?s going to be an inconvenience to people, but we?re just doing our job and keeping with the time and budget,” he said. “I hope keeping it open an extra week is some consolation.”Kait Taylor can be reached at [email protected].