Bunkers at Port this morning

Ocean Shores Mayor Dean Bunkers (with Ken Lanfear, the Public Works director) was at the Port of Grays Harbor this morning. He used the Coastal Communities of Southwest Washington meeting as an opportunity to lobby for assistance with the Jetty, which was identified by the Army Corps of Engineers as “a structure we’re closely monitoring”; Jetty area residents Cathy and Don Eggleston, who have been promoting the need to protect their area from flooding, were in attendance at the Port office in Aberdeen. The Corps will be doing an on-site inspection of the Jetty in April. “It’s amazing how much property (near the Jetty) has eroded away in the last five or six years,” Bunkers told the group, which included County Commissioner Mike Wilson, Kevin Varness of Grays Harbor County Public Services and Gary Nelson, executive director of the Port.

Bunkers also used the opportunity to lobby for “the need to get the channel in front of the Marina dredged.” He added, “I’ve had some communication with the Quinaults . . . it would certainly be beneficial to us to form some kind of partnership.”

The Quniault Nation owns the Marina.

The meeting also covered the need for dredging in the Westport area, and projects in Long Beach and Ilwaco.