PORT ANGELES — State and community leaders hailed the state Department of Transportation graving yard facility as another big boost to the region’s economy. They spoke during a ground-breaking ceremony Wednesday at the waterfront site off Marine Drive.
On a morning cooled by long-awaited overnight rain, more than 100 people gathered at the 25.6 acres of Port of Port Angeles-owned property east of the Daishowa America Co. Ltd. mill to mark the event.
They celebrated the beginning of construction to begin Monday on the facility where massive pontoons and anchors will be built for the 2006 east-half replacement project at the 42-year-old Hood Canal Bridge. The bridge is the transportation lifeline between the North Olympic Peninsula and Kitsap County.
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The rest of the story appears in the Thursday Peninsula Daily News.