LAPUSH — High surf Wednesday at LaPush threatened more damage to the south jetty, but at noon, the jetty was holding, and officials reported no flooding in the Quileute village.
The National Weather Service issued a high surf warning Wednesday morning through 4 a.m. today.
“Things are holding steady out there,” said Penny Linterman, a Clallam County emergency management program coordinator, at mid-day Wednesday.
“There are no problems at this point,” Linterman said.
The Army Corps of Engineers and LaPush officials were monitoring the situation, she added.
LaPush’s south jetty, at the mouth of the Quillayute River bar, experienced severe erosion during the first week of January, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began to make repairs Jan. 7.
Then, the jetty lost about a third of its berm material in heavy surf combined with high tides Sunday and Monday, the Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday.
The jetty was breached early Monday during 20-foot waves and a high tide that reached 9.4 feet at LaPush at 11:59 a.m. that day.
The Coast Guard captain of Port Sector Puget Sound in Seattle, which had closed the Quillayute River bar Sunday because of 20-foot swells, issued a statement saying it was closed again Wednesday because of a storm.
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