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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.
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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-
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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. That’s
just the nature of the beast
there.”
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