100-year-old Stanwood dike in need of emergency repairs
EVERETT — Just west of Stanwood, a 100-year-old mound of dirt and grass is the only thing holding back Puget Sound from flooding the city and the surrounding farmland.
In 2022, just weeks after Mayor Sid Roberts’ first term began, the dike broke. In January, days after the start of Robert’s second term, winter storms damaged 5,000 feet of the 4-mile-long levee once again.
“We had a king tide and wind event in January that took the face of the levee off of it in sections and over tops in sections,” city engineer Alan Lytton said in an interview Friday. “What we’re doing here is fixing the section that was directly damaged.”
It wasn’t an “outrageously strong wind or an outrageously high tide, just both of them happening at the same time,” he said.
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