the boat basin and the breakwaters. The pile breakwaters, one
ft long
located southeast of the basin and one 350
long located south of the basin,
were completed in 1957. The southeast breakwater was extended to 440 ft by
local interests in 1958, and both breakwaters were extended to
ft in
1964. Both breakwaters required rehabilitation in 1976. The Port of
Anacortes enlarged the mooring basin in 1982. A chronology of events related
Bellingham Harbor, Washington
115. Bellingham is located on the east side of Puget Sound in northern
Washington. The project includes three waterways maintained by dredging, a
small-boat basin protected by two rubble-mound breakwaters, and an expansion
of the basin protected by a rubble-mound breakwater.
116. The small-boat basin was authorized in 1954, including two rubble-
mound breakwaters with a combined length of 3,900 ft and the removal of an
existing breakwater and dredging and maintenance of an entrance channel. The
harbor was expanded in 1 8 under authority of the 1960 River and Harbor Act.
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The expansion included construction of a 1,500-ft rubble-mound breakwater and
dredging of entrance and access channels and a turning basin. A chronology of
events related to the development and repair of the harbor structures is given
in Table 34.
Blaine Harbor, Washington
Blaine Harbor is located on the US-Canadian border in the north-
west corner of the State of Washington. The project includes a 14.7-acre
expansion of an existing mooring basin, construction of a 1,500-ft rubble-
mound breakwater, and reinforcement and maintenance of an existing 850-ft
breakwater.
and completed in 1957. Local
1 8 The project was authorized in
1.
interests established a small-boat basin at the site in 1936 and gradually
enlarged it to 11.1 acres by 1956. The basin was protected by a 130-ft un-
treated pile breakwater, a 400-ft treated pile breakwater, an 834-ft two-step
untreated wood pile and rock breakwater, a 450-ft rubble-mound breakwater, and
a 9,260-ft bulkhead. The project converted 3.5 acres of the existing basin
into an entrance channel and added 14.7 acres to the basin, protected by
construction of a 1,500-ft rubble-mound breakwater extending from the existing
rubble-mound breakwater to the existing two-step breakwater. The treated and
untreated timber pile breakwaters are maintained by the Port of Bellingham.
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