HomeMy WebLinkAboutTranscript 07/16/2003 July 16, 2003
The following is an excerpt from the City Council meeting of July 15, 2003, with regard to a
presentation made by Jerry Moore, Washington State Department of Transportation, on the
matter of the Graving Dock. Specifically, this excerpt relates to potential future uses for the
Graving Dock directly linked to the size of the facility.
Williams: What is your clearance between the upper floor level and the top of the super
flood? What's your depth at that point?
Moore: The sheet pile retaining wall that goes around the outside is 17' higher than the
floor which means it's 16' of water of what it is designed for. There's a maximum
height elevation on the structure that has a notch on it so you don't exceed that.
So, it's 16' of draft—you'd be scraping bottom.
Williams: So, if somebody were to bring a vessel and super flood to float out on to the upper
deck, you'd have to be 16 or less feet of draft?
Moore: 16 or less feet of draft.
Williams: OK.
Wiggins: What's the Washington ferry draft?
Moore: Um, I don't know what it is, but John Callahan (sp?) who worked with ferry
services says our ferries would be able to be put up there, if that were something to
happen in the future. We have no plans to do that, I want to emphasize. With
respect to size, let me ... the notorious battleship photograph of me ... that thing
has come to haunt me many times here, but that was strictly just to show concepts
... originally I was going to use football fields, you know something ... but all of
our ferries almost fit in there. One of them you need to not quite stop ... I think
it's 6" too long or something like that. And it doesn't preclude, if somebody has
something warranted and the money is there, you can always expand the system.
But it's just, relatively speaking, we just like say, I think it's 6" too short for our
largest ferries to fit in—in the lower portion of the graving dock.