Committee endorses harbor ‘wave barrier’

The Haines Borough Port and Harbor Advisory Committee is recommending the assembly endorse a wave barrier breakwater – instead of a rubble mound – so the harbor expansion project can move forward.

The committee voted unanimously Monday to recommend the wave barrier option, as all rubble mound options presented by PND Engineers were too expensive for the project’s $19.5 million budget to bear.

Dick Somerville, vice president of PND, presented several rubble mound options after…