Loring

The Loring Service Area Board meets Friday, Oct. 9, to weigh dock grant options and spending authority. Its year-end fund balance of $60,625 is well short of the cheapest stabilization concept engineers have priced: $8.5 million for a breakwater float.

The meeting is at 5:30 pm at the White Cliff Building, 1900 First Ave., Suite 224, with citizen comments on the agenda.

At the July 23 meeting, PND Engineers presented three concepts based on eight years of Guard Island wave data. They ranged from the $8.5 million breakwater float, which would cut wave height by 7%, to a $63.5 million extended rubble mound breakwater, a wall of piled rock, which the minutes say reduces "the wavelength to 80%." Float replacement alone was estimated at $2.3 million.