PORT ANGELES — The $30,000-a-day work stoppage at the graving yard could force replacement of the aging eastern half of the Canal Bridge to be delayed beyond the planned 2006 date.
Construction of the graving yard on the Port Angeles waterfront was halted Aug. 26, a week after Native American remains of people who lived in historic Klallam tribal villages were discovered.
Officials from the state Department of Transportation and the Lower Klallam Elwha Tribe are scheduled to meet today to discuss an archeological plan that could allow the work to resume.
The graving yard will be used to build new concrete anchors and pontoons for the bridge that links Jefferson and Kitsap counties.
The graving yard work accounts for $17 million of the $204 million bridge replacement project.
State officials say the shutdown is costing taxpayers $30,000 a day.
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The rest of the story is in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News.
