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Alaskan Way Seawall information


Seawall construction, 1934

The Alaskan Way Seawall is a seawall which runs for approximately 7,166 feet (2,184 m) along the Elliott Bay waterfront southwest of downtown Seattle from Bay Street to S. Washington Street.[1] The seawall is being rebuilt in the 2010s as part of a waterfront redevelopment megaproject estimated to cost over $1 billion.[2]

  1. ^ "Determination of Significance and Request for Comments on Scope of EIS" (PDF). Seattle Department of Transportation. May 27, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference seattletimes20140929 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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the east running north and northwest is the heart of Seattle, the Alaskan Way Seawall, the Central Waterfront, and Smith Cove. Elliott Bay is home to the...

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damaged and was later torn down and re-built. In Seattle, the Alaskan Way Viaduct and its seawall were damaged, forcing the viaduct to close for emergency...

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and its profound impacts have prompted the discussion of constructing seawalls and other coastal barriers around the shorelines of the metropolitan area...

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1956 Pacific typhoon season

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mid-1950s. Freda hit Taiwan and China. Its remnants spread all the way to the Alaskan Islands. Harriet formed on September 19. It was a moderately powerful...

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storm. The warden at the time, James A. Johnston, proposed extend the seawall next to it and asked the bureau for $6500 to fund it. He would later claim...

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