Port of Warden to repair airport runway despite lack of state funds
Port of Warden commissioners, left to right, Pedro Campos, Benjamin Leavitt and Dale Pomeroy and Port of Warden Executive Director Pat Millard during a Thursday Port of Warden Commission meeting. Commissioners unanimously approved spending $22,000 to crack seal the airport runway and change the airport’s take-off pattern during the meeting.
CHARLES H. FEATHERSTONE/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
The roughly 2,800-foot-long runway of the Warden Airport, looking south. Currently, aircraft taking off in this direction veer to the left, over the growing city of Warden. However, port commissioners voted to submit an application to the Federal Aviation Administration to change the south-bound take-off pattern to the right, guiding aircraft over farmland instead.
WARDEN — The Port of Warden is going to spend $22,000 to seal the cracks in its airport runway despite the refusal of the Washington State Department of Transport to award the port a grant for the project.
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