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8A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 Unearthed fuel tank a reminder of ’70s slide ODOT removes long-buried steel cylinder from Silver Point beach By ERICK BENGEL EO Media Group Pamplin Media Group The Oregon State Lottery is in the process of up- grading its video gaming terminals, which provide the majority of its revenues. Lottery works to upgrade gaming terminals By STEVE FORRESTER Capital Bureau and The Daily Astorian SALEM — The Or- egon Lottery is taking steps to raise its game. “We are trying to keep up with the mar- ket,” Executive Director Jack Roberts told Oregon Capital Insider. “We’re upgrading the video lot- tery terminals, which are a decade old. Also we’re getting a new network system that will allow us to upgrade games more simply.” Unlike other states with video lotteries, Ore- gon owns and repairs its terminals. Thus Oregon has a higher net off gross revenues. Also under review for upgrade, says Roberts, are the more traditional games. Oregon’s biggest seller are Scratch-it tick- ets. The second largest is Keno. “We don’t make as much per capita on our traditional games as oth- er states do,” Roberts ‘We are trying to keep up with the market.’ — Jack Roberts executive director of the Oregon Lottery says. “There’s no reason why we can’t reach out to more people on the tradi- tional games. About half of Oregonians play the lottery in a given year. Only 12 percent play vid- eo lottery. But most of our revenue comes from video lottery.” The Oregon Lottery’s annual transfer to the state is north of $1 bil- lion. The Lottery is a ma- jor employer, with 400 full time equivalents. Roberts, 62, has run the Oregon Lottery for one and one-half years. This story first ap- peared in the Oregon Capital Insider newslet- ter. To subscribe, go to oregoncapitalinsider.com CANNON BEACH — The Oregon Department of Trans- portation recently unearthed a rusted remnant of North Coast history: an empty 1,000-gal- lon fuel tank buried during the legendary landslide of Feb. 3, 1974, at Silver Point. First reported by a man walking along the beach last month, the tank could be seen jutting up from the soil, hav- ing resurfaced just above the high tide line, according to Kevin Werst, the department’s transportation maintenance manager for the Warrenton Section of District 1. $W¿UVWWKH2'27SHUVRQ- nel sent to inspect the large steel cylinder thought it was a septic tank. But when the four-man crew went to dig it out the morning of April 21, they could smell the residual oil, according to Felix Mar- tinez, the coordinator for the Warrenton section who led the operation. “Once we got in there and realized what it really was, we were worried about spillage,” Martinez said. But after he and his team took a peek in- side the tank, they reckoned it was safe to move, he said. Jim Crowell, a part-time Cannon Beach resident since 1962 who lives north of the site, took photos as the men wrapped the artifact in a chain sling, pulled it from the earth with a backhoe, loaded it onto a trailer bed and hauled it away. The tank is now atODOT’s maintenance yard in Warren- ton, where it is waiting to be recycled, Martinez said. ‘Nature of the beast’ The Silver Point landslide, Photo courtesy of Jim Crowell An Oregon Department of Transportation crew pulls a 1,000-gallon fuel tank from the earth near the vegetation line at the Silver Point beach. The tank was buried during the landslide of 1974. Photo courtesy of Jim Crowell The empty fuel tank is placed atop a trailer bed after being pulled from the Silver Point Beach in the early morning hours of April 21. The ODOTcrew could still smell the re- sidual oil, even after all these years. which occurred roughly at milepost 32, involved more than 1.5 million cubic meters of material that slushed across the highway down to the beach and “damaged or de- stroyed at least four houses,” according to the book “Volca- noes to Vineyards: Geologic Field Trips Through the Dy- namic Landscape of the Pacif- ic Northwest.” The slide “closed the high- way for several days” and re- sulted in reconstruction costs of more than $1 million, the books reads. Crowell said the slide knocked two beachfront hous- es off of their foundations. The structures were removed and never rebuilt. Since then, “there have been no dwellings built on that entire stretch along the beach,” he said. But leftover debris from the houses, has, over the years, “periodically kind of squirted out down near the edge of the vegetation line,” including pieces of a riv- HUURFN¿UHSODFHKHVDLG After the landslide, the state installed drain pipes to collect water accumulation. But sections of pipe have ap- parently become disconnect- ed, and some have emerged from the ground “in a kind of haphazard appearance,” Crowell said. Local historian Peter Lind- sey noted developers have had trouble building on the “somewhat mobile ground” from Silver Point to Hug Point. “We have a long history of slides in that area south of Cannon Beach,” though most are small slides, said Lou Torres, an ODOT pub- lic information officer. Ev- ery winter, “we’re always dealing with some mud or dirt that comes down. 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