Port Angeles costs related to Hood Canal Bridge project

Published 12:01 am Sunday, February 5, 2006

ACCORDING TO THE state Department of Transportation’s fourth quarter report, the now-defunct graving yard in Port Angeles has cost taxpayers $86.8 million.

Costs include:

* Contractor payments, $59.56 million.

* Engineering and archaeology consultants, $6.4 million.

* State-supplied materials, $5.46 million.

* Land acquisition and leases, $5 million.

* Department of Transportation contract management, $3.99 million.

* Tribal mitigation settlement, $3.44 million.

* Site exploration and design, $2.49 million.

* Landscaping, $447,000.