PORT ANGELES — Thousands of cubic yards of dirt from the state Department of Transportation’s graving yard project will be trucked to a west Port Angeles quarry starting later this month.
Trucks will carry the excavated materials south and west on a state highway truck route instead of through busy downtown Port Angeles.
Jerry Moore, project manager at Transportation’s Port Angeles office, said Thursday afternoon that graving yard contractor Kiewit-General indicated the dirt will go to an industrial park quarry instead of the former Rayonier pulp mill site in eastern Port Angeles.
“That’s their first priority,” Moore said.
“Rayonier is their second alternative, but that is not the direction they are going at this time.”
Kiewit-General of Poulsbo. a joint operation of Kiewit Building Group and General Construction, was awarded the $204 million Hood Canal Bridge renovation contract in June.
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