PORT ANGELES — The state Department of Transportation graving yard proposed on the city’s industrial waterfront is unlikely to be stopped by Northwest shipbuilding titan Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp., a city councilman said Tuesday.
“I’m sure it’s going to go away,” Larry Williams said of the Todd-led lobbying effort as he spoke to Port Angeles Business Association members during the group’s weekly breakfast meeting at Joshua’s Restaurant.
Williams said Gov. Gary Locke made it known during his Port Angeles “Jobs Now” stop last week that he supports private-sector use of the graving yard between times when state floating bridge components are built.
The dry dock is envisioned as the place to build pontoons and anchors for the 2006 Hood Canal Bridge eastern half replacement, and a 2016 project to fabricate new parts for the Evergreen Point Bridge between Seattle and Medina.
In between, the graving yard could be rented out for private dry dock use, Clallam business advocates have proposed in the hopes of keeping jobs and revenues flowing into the Peninsula economy.
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