The work on deepening the Port of Grays Harbor’s navigation channel has secured federal funding and is expected to begin sometime this fall, officials said at the Port’s Tuesday meeting.
Federal funding will provide $15 million for the project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works Branch Chief Jessica Winkler told Port officials.
A project to deepen the Port’s channel to the fully authorized depth of -38 feet came in 1986, when work began to deepen the channel to -36 feet. That work was finished in 1991. The plan to deepen by another two feet has been in the works since 2007.