Satsop News

Photo courtesy of Satsop Development Park [enlarge] Crews last week set an interior wall into a mock-up pontoon section for the state Route 520 bridge project.

The Washington Transportation Department has not yet decided exactly where the pontoons will be built for a new Highway 520 floating bridge but they're getting a better idea how.

Photo courtesy of WSDOT [enlarge] A team at Satsop in eastern Grays Harbor County is looking at ways to build better pontoons for the new floating bridge.

Here's a simple question with a not-so-simple answer: How many square miles is the state of Washington? Orv Trapp, a reader of The Olympian, retired nuclear engineer and trustworthy news source when I was covering the failed construction of the Washington Public Power Supply System nuclear power plants at Satsop some 30 years ago, posed the ...

It's going to be a wet Thanksgiving across Western Washington. Flood watches are in effect for 11 counties and there's also lots of big puddles and standing water on the roadways.

Talk about your "Groundhog Day" moments. Friday may be very much like Thursday: rainy and cool.

The National Weather Service says heavy rains have filled some Western Washington rivers.