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USS Theodore Roosevelt and its 3,000 sailors bound for Bremerton in July
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Former Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier leaves dry dock in Bremerton
BREMERTON Its hull needed to be scraped so the old flattop could be scrapped.
The former USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, decommissioned in 2009 following nearly a half-century of service, will soon head for its dismantling. But before that could happen, the Navy placed the 1,062-foot-long warship into a dry dock at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to remove marine growth from its hull.
The brief dry dock period went more quickly than the Navy anticipated. The ship, once called the Battle Cat, entered Dry Dock 6 at the shipyard in early March. It left April 22, a stay of fewer than two months. The Navy had planned the work to take 2 1/2 months.
BANGOR A powerful and incessant tsunami generated by the next Cascadia megaquake would crest Navy piers and wharves, flood critical state highways in Kitsap County and inundate other lowland areas of Puget Sound, according to new modeling released Tuesday by the state s Department of Natural Resources.
In Hood Canal, the 9.0 quake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone off Washington s coast would slosh water back and forth like in a bathtub, topping the Navy s submarine piers and pushing waves as high as 14 feet onto the shore at Belfair.
In Sinclair Inlet, the waves would be smaller, the state says, but would still inundate the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard with about a foot of water and likely push more than 3 1/2 feet of water through Gorst, closing the highway. Other lowland areas of Puget Sound, particularly near the mouths of streams including Clear Creek in Silverdale and within Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island, would flood as well.
Upward of 85,000 trips along the Gorst corridor are made by folks in our region. Everyone who uses that road can attest to the frustrating and problematic slow-down guaranteed at this bottleneck. We know. We use that road ourselves as we visit loved ones, go to community events, head to Olympia, make trips to the doctor. A solution cannot wait, and this is the year to get this done, as we look to recover and rebuild after this pandemic.
But we can’t do it without bipartisan and cross-region collaboration. That is why we have prioritized our involvement with the Gorst Coalition over the past year – a community coalition that includes lawmakers at the federal, state, and local level, along with business leaders, Suquamish tribal leaders, and local Navy leaders. We have come together every month for 12 months to move this mission-essential project forward.
History, hints of future in Navy s mothballed ships in Bremerton, Wash
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