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CHIMACUM — Chimacum High School is one of three locations at which the Navy is holding public hearings this week on newly announced plans to build a $715 million wharf at the Bangor submarine base on Hood Canal.
The wharf would be used to load and unload ballistic missiles on Trident submarines. The existing wharf, the Navy says, is 30 years old, outdated and in need of repair.
The Navy expects to begin construction in 2012 on the covered 560-foot wharf to be completed in 2016, according to an Associated Press dispatch.
Eight Trident subs are based at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. The subs carry 24 missiles. Each missile can carry eight warheads.
The Navy’s only public hearing scheduled on the North Olympic Peninsula will start at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Chimacum High School commons, 91 West Valley Road.
Other hearings on plans for the new wharf are scheduled Tuesday in the North Kitsap High School commons in Poulsbo and Thursday at Seattle Central Library.
