Wednesday, December 13, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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City encourages Barclay Forest Service seeks input on permits
Drive alternate route
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
In an effort to get large
trucks away from downtown,
the alternate route of Barclay
Drive has been encour-
aged with signage. By using
Barclay, trucks avoid having
to stop at the Cascade Avenue
crosswalks, particularly dur-
ing the busy tourist season.
Some of the trucks actu-
ally go to the industrial area
surrounding Barclay to pick
up and make deliveries. To
encourage use of the alter-
nate route by more trucks,
there are some improvements
under consideration as a part
of the Transportation Safety
Plan refinement, including
both the short-term and long-
term options for the Highway
20/Locust Street intersec-
tion (see related story, page
1), allowing trucks to easily
re-enter the traffic flow on
Highway 20 after traveling
on Barclay and Locust.
Realignment of the
Barclay corridor would allow
for a continuous three-lane
street with a center turn lane,
which would allow for safety
in turning off Barclay by both
trucks and cars. Through
acquisition of some small
rights-of-way, Barclay could
be straightened out, making
it safer for 35-mile-per-hour
travel and easier for trucks to
maneuver.
The Barclay Drive/Locust
intersection could be altered
by making Barclay a through
street to provide continuous
connection along the alter-
nate route, eliminating the
need for trucks to stop. It is
believed this change would
help make Barclay a more
favorable route through town
for trucks. A stop sign would
be installed north of Barclay
on Locust (Camp Polk Road)
for traffic coming into town
from the north.
An eventual roundabout at
this intersection would allow
for increased capacity as both
truck and automobile traffic
increase.
There has been conver-
sation about providing pos-
sible accommodation of bike
and pedestrian paths along
Barclay, although there has
been vocal opposition to
drawing the trucks away from
downtown and then adding
bikes and pedestrians in the
truck area. The City has been
looking at making provisions
for bike/ped traffic further
north of Barclay.
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The Sisters Ranger
District is seeking pub-
lic input — concerns, sug-
gestions, and questions —
regarding a project proposal
to renew several existing
special-use permits through-
out the district and to autho-
rize Oregon Water Resources
Department (OWRD) to
make permanent modifi-
cations to their temporary
Whychus Creek stream gage.
Public comments will help
identify issues to be consid-
ered in the environmental
review of these proposals.
The Sisters Ranger
District manages a wide
range of permits under
its special-uses program.
Examples of existing spe-
cial-use permits include road
access, power lines, irrigation
lines, recreation residences,
recreation events, and out-
fitter and guides. Permits
are generally authorized
for a term between one and
twenty years, depending on
the use.
At the time of expiration,
a special-use permit with a
new term may be reissued if
the permit-holder wishes to
continue the use. The deci-
sion to reissue an existing
permit varies on a case by
case basis, and is usually
issued if there is still a need
for the permit and the holder
is in compliance with Forest
Service regulations.
There are five expired per-
mits that need to be reissued
in 2018.
Permit-holders include:
• Black Butte Ranch
— signs (including main
entrance), water and sewer,
and transmission lines.
• Oregon Water Resources
Department — stream gauge
station, Metolius River.
• Sisters Park &
Recreation
District
— labyrinth.
• Oregon Water Resources
Department — stream gauge
station, Whychus Creek.
The three structures
that would encompass the
OWRD Whychus stream
gage include: the main gage
house, the staff plate, and
the benchmarks. A mast
will be attached to the main
gage house enclosure that
will support a small solar
panel and satellite antenna.
The main gage house will
be approximately 75 feet
from the streambank. The
main gage house will stand
seven feet high with a four-
by-four-feet concrete pad
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Ground disturbance and
impact will be caused by hand
tools. The depth of ground
disturbance associated with
the concrete pad will be two
to three inches. The staff
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a metal fence post and two-
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may need to install up to
three benchmarks consist-
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with cement and rebar stakes
buried three feet deep and
inches exposed above the
surface. A pressurized bub-
bler system line and tempera-
ture probe will be installed
in a flex conduit and metal
pipe. This will run from the
main gage house to the water.
This will require minimum
trenching with hand tools
and extend one inch into the
channel. This will run from
the main gage house to the
streambank.
The public is invited to
comment on the proposed
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