The Port of Port Townsend used a Boating Infrastructure Grant to design, engineer, and replace the north and south jetties of the Point Hudson Marina, which protect the entrance and the boats that moor there from waves, tides, and storm surges. The original creosote wood jetties had been in place for almost ninety years and had begun to fail due to age and damage from winter storms and the 2018–2019 king tide. The new jetties are made of 178 steel piles (pipes) that were buried thirty feet into the sea floor and have been filled with more than four thousand tons of large stone, with the base consisting of up to one thousand tons of bedding stone. An additional 1,500 tons of stone were used to create new sea life habitat outside the mouth of the marina.
See project details.