It would seem that the answer to this problem would be to remove the soil and cliffs from the shoreline, tiering them back away from the bluff. Maybe not feasible, maybe not practical,but I can’t foresee any other realistic way to stop this and protect the Straits from the leakage of pollution from the old PA landfill.
Immediate efforts to deal with a failing bluff abutting Port Angeles’ landfill will not include the removal of a seawall at its base, though the structure’s years may be numbered. Several members of the City Council and the public made clear during discussions about the city’s landfill bluff-stabilization project at Tuesday’s council meeting that they thought the 7-year-old concrete structure eventually should be torn out. Jeremy Schwartz reports.
Support local journalism, subscribe to the Peninsula Daily News.
Filed under: Puget Sound | Tagged: Port Angeles, Puget Sound, seawall |
What about creating some ” groins” or jetties that capture some of the 32 million cubic yards of sediment waiting to come down the Elwha to nourish the beaches and thereby reduce bluff erosion? It might even create some additional beach areas…..What about armoring the remaining 1000 feet of bluff to protect the area being eroded? (Everything from the cemetery, just to the east of the failed bluff is already armored to protect the six-foot diameter industrial water line that runs under the landfill and along the beach all the way to Nippon.) There are many details to this issue that are not well covered in the PDN, for a variety of reasons…