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Lane closures on Highway 22 for work on bridges
Virginia Barreda
Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
Highway 22 commuters can expect
lane closures starting this week as
transportation crews add screening to
four bridges east of Salem to prevent ob-
jects from falling onto the highway.
The project will require lane closures
through May — one lane of the overpass
where the bridge work is being done and
one lane of the highway below to pre-
vent debris from falling onto traﬃc, ac-
cording to oﬃcials from the Oregon De-
partment of Transportation.
Crews will shift the lane closures as
workers install the screening across
each bridge.
Design and constrictions costs will
total $796,914, according to ODOT.
Crews will work on one bridge at a
time, starting Monday with Albus Road
SE. Screen installments are expected to
take about a month for each bridge, with
any delays altering the estimated start
dates for the next bridge.
Access for pedestrians, including
those with disabilities, will be available
and identiﬁed through or around work
zones.
Order and estimated timing for
each bridge:
Albus Road SE: Work is scheduled to
begin Monday and will take approxi-
mately one month to complete.
h Hours: Monday through Thursday
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday from 9 a.m.
to Noon
72nd Avenue SE: Work is estimated
to begin Feb. 25 and will take approxi-
mately one month to complete.
h Hours: Monday through Thursday
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday from 9 a.m.
to Noon
Cordon Road: Work is estimated to
begin March 26 and will take approxi-
mately one month to complete.
h Hours: Monday through Thursday
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday from 9 a.m.
to Noon
Lancaster Drive SE: Work is estimat-
ed to begin April 19 and will take approx-
imately one month to complete.
h Hours: Nightly from 10 p.m. to 5
a.m.
Check the Oregon Department of
Transportation webpage for construc-
tion updates and TripCheck.com for the
most up to date traﬃc information.
Virginia Barreda is the breaking
news and public safety reporter for the
Statesman Journal. She can be reached
at 503-399-6657 or at vbarreda@states-
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out full and proper analysis and consul-
tation,” the association said in a state-
ment.
When the Consolidated Appropria-
tions Act and COVID Relief Act was
signed into law Dec. 27, it required the
Corps to submit an analysis deauthoriz-
ing hydropower as a purpose at Detroit
Dam and two other dams in the Willam-
ette Valley.
“Deauthorizing power production at
Detroit Dam is the best long-term op-
tion; the best for consumers, the best for
ﬁsh, and the best for taxpayers,” Simms
said.
The PPC lawsuit asks for the Corps to
return to producing power 24 hours a
day, especially in the period of highest
use in November through April, unless it
is deauthorized by Congress.
Detroit Dam powerplant shift opera-
tor forced to shelter in place
The remedy for the lawsuit between
the environmental groups and the
Corps, a suit that has grown to include
the state, Marion County and Salem,
hasn’t been determined.
A conference on the appointment of
experts in that case is scheduled for Jan.
15.
Bill Poehler covers Marion County for
the Statesman Journal. Contact him at
bpoehler@statesmanjournal.com
or
Twitter.com/bpoehler
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Dam and Big Cliﬀ, but those changes
aren’t scheduled to be completed for
years.
Claims the changes violated
federal law
Hydropower is one of the Congres-
sionally authorized purposes for the 13
dams in the Willamette Valley.
Among the 90 members of the Public
Power Council are Consumer’s Power
Incorporated, which serves rural areas
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nine federally recognized tribes for
needs arising from the COVID-19 pan-
demic and the associated economic
hardships.
h $7 million to fund a temporary rate
increase for Aging and People with Dis-
abilities nursing facilities; $3.4 million
to fund a temporary rate increase for In-
tellectual and Developmental Disabili-
ties programs; and $1 million to the Run-
away and Homeless Youth program to
help providers facing service delivery
challenges due to COVID-19.
h $932,112 to the COVID-19 pandemic
public health emergency for emergency
student ﬁnancial aid and for the Stu-
dent Daycare program childcare grants.
h $250,000 for an ombudsman pro-
gram to address COVID-19 related in-
vestigations and complaint mitigation
in the state’s prison system.
h $135,000 for grants to two commu-
nity organizations that will educate
renters about Oregon’s eviction morato-
rium.
Wildﬁre relief:
h $36.75 million for wildﬁre debris re-
moval.
h $31.5 million to provide shelter,
of Marion and Polk counties including
Detroit, Salem Electric and Monmouth
Power & Light.
The council’s members purchase hy-
dropower from the Bonneville Power
Administration, which includes power
produced at Detroit Dam, and sells it to
consumers.
The Corps' changes, according to the
PPC lawsuit, were a violation of the Ad-
ministrative Procedure Act and Nation-
al Environmental Policy Act and of fed-
eral legislation that governs the opera-
tion of the dam.
“PPC members are strongly invested
in ﬁsh mitigation eﬀorts, but those ef-
forts must not be inequitably borne by
power customers or implemented with-
food, and wraparound services to Ore-
gonians impacted by wildﬁres.
h $25 million for a grant to the Hous-
ing Authority of Jackson County to ac-
quire and develop property to replace a
portion of lost workforce housing de-
stroyed during the Labor Day wildﬁres.
h $14.28 million for the state’s wild-
ﬁre recovery, prevention, and prepared-
ness activities to fund the state’s re-
maining estimated net cost for the 2020
ﬁre season.
h $13 million for the state’s wildﬁre
recovery, prevention and preparedness
activities to the Oregon Department of
Forestry to supplement the wildﬁre avi-
ation program, increase ﬁre program
staﬃng, and expand the partnership
and planning program, including feder-
al forest health programs.
h $4 million for the state’s wildﬁre re-
covery, prevention and preparedness
activities to the Department of State Po-
lice, Oﬃce of the State Fire Marshal for
wildﬁre response and preparedness.
h $2 million for the establishment of
a municipal wildﬁre ﬁnancial assis-
tance program.
Tracy Loew is a reporter at the
Statesman Journal. She can be reached
at tloew@statesmanjournal.com, 503-
399-6779 or on Twitter at @Tracy_Loew
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