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Students to restore Millrace site
Landscape students
design improvements to
beautify the waterway
By Tricia Schwennesen
Oregon Daily Emerald
A soggy blanket of autumn
leaves blew across the wet pave
ment as students dashed to catch
the black tarps covering the em
bankment before they flew into
the water.
“We gotta really move to make
this happen," Assistant Professor
Stan Jones said to his landscape
architecture students.
Despite dark skies and inter
mittent rain showers, students in
the fourth-year landscape archi
tecture studio continued to lay
down basalt rocks and plant na
tive Oregon vegetation on the
banks of the Millrace, a campus
waterway across Franklin Boule
vard, on Wednesday.
This year, 15 landscape archi
tect students designed improve
ments to the waterway in front of
the physical plant in a process
called applied stream bank
restoration. Changes included
building a new viewing deck,
planting native vegetation to at
tract native species of birds and
rebuilding the embankment to
prevent further erosion.
“The focus of the studio is for
students to take on a project that
they design, detail and then con
struct,” Jones said.
The Millrace is about a two
mile stretch of water diverted
from the Willamette River that
used to power wheels on several
mills in the early 1900s.
“It’s hard to tell in construction
how much you will get done be
cause the weather is always a fac
tor,” said Peter Dixon, a land
scape architecture major. “It’s a
cool opportunity, a cool project to
be able to improve the University
scape.”
The goal of the project was to
stabilize the bank while increas
ing native vegetation and wildlife.
Over the years, the Millrace has
been subjected to pedestrians, a
parking lot, an overpopulation of
ducks and land erosion.
Jones said the vast number of
ducks living in the Millrace is due
to people feeding them human
food, such as white bread.
“We want to help people un
derstand why they shouldn’t feed
Scott BamettZHmemlil
Stan Jones helps restore part of the Millrace across the street from the Onyx Bridge
the ducks what they feed the
ducks,” Jones said. “We are in
creasing the diversity of plant life
and increasing the habitat for a
variety of species.”
Jones said the challenge for stu
dents is to find “a way to balance
things that would and couldn’t
change with things that should be
able to change - like the stream.”
Red willow, rushes and dog
wood will replace compressed
clay, and the new vegetation
should attract more species of na
tive birds.
To encourage Osprey to dwell
near the water, students will in
corporate into their plans a nest
ing pole for the hawk-like bird, a
native Oregon species that hunts
in water.The students also de
signed a bio-swale, which will
take rainwater run off from the
parking lot and treat it, Jones said.
Students gleaned information
from other courses about what
types of materials to use and
where to find them. For example,
the new deck is being built out of
recycled plastic lumber, a combi
nation of recycled milk bottles
and wood products.
“It doesn’t rot as quickly. It lasts
longer, and it takes advantage of
recycled products,” Jones said.
Students stressed the impor
tance of using materials that don't
hurt the environment.
Dixon said even the erosion
control blankets, called geo-tex
tiles, are a good protective layer
for the soil.
“Those blankets are neat be
cause they’re totally organic and
they hold the soil together,”
Dixon said.
Landscape architecture major
Dryden Jenney said there are
some drawbacks to the project.
“Some of the drawings didn’t
fit the site and we had to make ad
justments,” Jenney said. “Some
materials weren’t available, and
we’ve made some compromises.”
Jones said the studio helps stu
dents see the connection between
the designs and what is actually
built in the field, he said.
Jenney said the Millrace studio
project has been one of the best
experiences because she is a
“hands-on learner.”
“It’s been really educational
just making that connection,” Jen
ney said. “Designing something
has been so arbitrary, we’ve nev
er really had our own site, and
this time it’s been so wonderful
because the site was so close to
our studio, and we could go mea
sure things.”
Jenney said the manual labor
was fun and it was good to get her
hands down in the dirt.
“Sometimes group projects can
be very stressful, but this went
very smooth,” Jenney said.
Jones and his students said the
$30,000 project should be com
pleted in the next couple of
weeks.
“Aesthetically, it’s just going to
be a much nicer environment for
people to come down and visit,”
Jones said.
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