PORT ANGELES — City engineers are designing projects to be built during the next several years that total as much as $70 million, city Public Works Director Glenn Cutler told the Chamber of Commerce on Monday.
Cutler and City Engineer Gary Kenworthy talked about the numerous planned city projects at the weekly luncheon of the Port Angeles chamber before about 60 people at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant.
The city is “really busy” with designing new facilities in anticipation of the Elwha River dams removal project, Cutler said.
They include a federally funded water treatment plant that will handle 11 million gallons a day, Cutler said.
A second plant will treat industrial water from the Nippon mill and the Elwha River fish hatchery, he said.
The city’s water system taps the Elwha River between the two dams, and water quality is an issue when the structures are removed in a few years to restore fish habitat on the river.
