Two North Olympic Peninsula meetings in response to last week’s state pullout of the Port Angeles graving yard project will be held today.
* The Port of Port Townsend convenes at 9 a.m. in the Point Hudson Marina Room, 130 Hudson St., to discuss whether the Port will propose building the Hood Canal Bridge components in Port Townsend.
Under consideration will be about seven acres of Port property for a diminished graving yard just south of Boat Haven, or considerably more acreage owned by Port Townsend Paper Corp., possibly for a full-size graving yard just south of the mill.
* The Port Angeles City Council will hold a special meeting — Mayor Richard Headrick called it an “emergency” meeting in a letter to the Lower Elwha Klallam tribal chairwoman — to discuss the future of the former graving yard property on Marine Drive.
Gov. Gary Locke and state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald announced last week that they are abandoning the 22.5-acre graving yard project in Port Angeles, at the request of the Elwha tribe.
About $58.8 million has been spent on the Port Angeles project — including archaeology on the former village of Tse-whit-zen — and City Council members are planning to discuss any possibility of resuming the graving yard after full archaeological removal of Klallam ancestral remains and artifacts.
The City Council meeting starts at 1 p.m. at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St.
Both meetings are open to the public.
