3-8-2019
BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Those giant rocks flatbed trucks are hauling to Bellingham’s waterfront are being used to protect shipping at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Port of Bellingham Executive Director Rob Fix says the rocks are mined from a couple of regional quarries then hauled to the waterfront.
The Army Corps of Engineers then periodically loads them on barges and ships them to the Columbia river where they’re used to shore up three jetties that protect shipping lanes.
The jetties are regularly pounded by waves that can reach 30 feet, and if they were to be breached shipping could be shut down by sand washed into the lanes.
Fix says the rock shipments through Bellingham could go on for a year.
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