‘Band-Aid’ seawall likely to stay below failing landfill bluff in Port Angeles

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.

“I guess the idea of a $1.4 million Band-Aid [to buttress the seawall] is really hard for me to accept,” City Councilwoman Brooke Nelson said.