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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015 Peninsula ports dredging up sediment solutions Ilwaco seeks a new location to dispose of dredge spoils he and other staff did locate two eventu- ally: one near the marina and one near the Cape Disappointment Coast Guard station. Such a system has been successfully implemented at the Port of Willapa Har- By KATIE WILSON ERULQQRUWK3DFL¿F&RXQW\³%XW´VDLG EO Media Group 3RUW 0DQDJHU 5HEHFFD &KDIIHH ³DQG WKHUH¶VDOZD\VDEXW´ ILWACO, Wash. — Port manag- She said they did have some trouble ers in Ilwaco and Chinook say they are ZRUNLQJRXWKRZWRPDQDJHDÀRDWLQJ lucky to have landed a commitment pipeline that feeds the material towards from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the underwater dispersal site. to dredge federally managed channels That port also decided to place the — crucial to both ports’ continued sur- system in an area somewhat shallower vival — for the second year in a row, but than Shepsis would normally prefer. that doesn’t mean all of their problems It was worth the risk, Chaffee said are solved. $SULO³:HSUREDEO\ZRXOGKDYHORVW DAMIAN MULINIX — EO Media Group Despite the dredging the Corps com- Bay Center (marina) and Tokeland (ma- pleted last year, the Port of Ilwaco’s Bak- A dredge pulls up a load of sediment during local work last year. Ad- ULQDLIZHGLGQ¶WKDYHÀRZODQHGLVSRV- HU%D\LVDOUHDG\¿OOLQJEDFNXSDQGZLOO ditional work is expected later in 2015. DO´ likely need work well into the future. The process was just more compli- Meanwhile, a dredge disposal site at the tion by Vladimir Shepsis, a coastal engi- out these holes scatters the excess sedi- cated than they thought it would be, she far end of the marina is nearing capaci- neer with Coast and Harbor Engineering. ment. told the people gathered in the Port of ty and port commissioners will have to After examining a variety of possible Shepsis said the sediment comes Ilwaco’s conference room. come up with a new way to dispose of solutions, Shepsis said that, from an en- from the Columbia River and should, The Port of Ilwaco’s current disposal or disperse the material dredged from the gineering point of view, the port’s best preferably, go back into that ecosystem. site, a strip of land east of the marina, is river and the marina. RSWLRQZRXOGOLNHO\EHWRXVHDÀRZODQH ¿OOLQJXSDQGWKHSRUWKDVQRWVXFFHVV- Finding good holes At a meeting with congressional dispersal system where dredged material fully found a way to move the material +HVDLGKHKDGVRPHWURXEOH¿QGLQJ elsewhere. Under permits from the state representatives and employees with the is dumped in naturally occurring depres- Corps April 2, port staff and commis- sions or holes on the river bottom. The good, deep holes in places he’d other- Department of Ecology, the port can use sioners listened to an informal presenta- VWURQJÀRZRIZDWHUWKDWDOUHDG\VFRRSV wise except to see them near the port, but GUHGJHVSRLOVIRU³EHQH¿FLDOXVH´XVLQJ the material on its own lands or possibly giving it to other entities. The material coming out of the marina is considered ³FOHDQ´ Sediment management However, efforts to use or get rid of the material have not been successful. But taking care of the sediment is one of the port’s major concerns. Not much more than a decade ago, Baker Bay did not need the constant atten- tion it seems to require now. Many WKLQJV FRXOG EH LQÀXHQFLQJ WKH EXLOG up of sentiment and much of the sedi- ment could technically be coming from across the river. %XWDV6KHSVLVVDLG³<RXFDQ¶WVD\ WR2UHJRQµ7DNH\RXUVHGLPHQWEDFN¶´ From an engineering perspective, the ÀRZODQHGLVSRVDOZRXOGOLNHO\ZRUNIRU Ilwaco, Shepsis said. It doesn’t mean it is the best solution, he added, since he is not aware of what other issues surround- ing those areas — habitat concerns, politics — might make such a use less feasible if not impossible. That is infor- mation he will look to the Ilwaco Port Commission to provide. Port Manager Guy Glenn Jr., said he and the commission will likely discuss these things at a port meeting this month. 'DWDFHQWHUVHFXULW\ÀDZV Sen. Johnson says state IURPVWLOOQRW¿[HG will fund Amtrak line By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — Three years after VWDWH DXGLWRUV LGHQWL¿HG VHFXULW\ weaknesses at Oregon’s main data center in Salem, the state has \HWWR¿[VRPHRIWKHSUREOHPV The vulnerabilities were out- lined in a secret March 2012 letter to Michael Jordan, who was at the time director of the Department of Administrative Services, which manages the data warehouse. The facility stores data for multiple state agencies. The extent of the problem re- mains unclear, because the agency declined to release the letter in re- sponse to a public records request from the EO Media Group/Pam- plin Media Group Capital Bureau. Auditors are in the midst of anoth- er periodic review of security at the center and they expect to complete the report this summer. State agencies have struggled for years to keep Oregonians’ data secure. Earlier this month, the EO Media Group/Pamplin Media Group Capital Bureau reported that outdated security protocols on state websites left Oregonians vulnerable to attackers when they SDLG FKLOG VXSSRUW ¿OHG XQHP- ployment claims and completed other online transactions. One reason the Department of Administrative Services does not want the public to see the 2012 letter is that attackers could take advantage of security weakness- es at the data center that it has not ¿[HG Matt Shelby, a spokesman for the Department of Administrative Services, wrote in an email that ³WKHUHLVOLWWOHEH\RQGWKHKHDGHU that we would release because it discusses past and current security LVVXHVDWWKH6WDWH'DWD&HQWHU´ Nonetheless, Shelby said in an interview Tuesday that according to state Chief Information Secu- ULW\2I¿FHU6WHIDQ5LFKDUGVHP- ployees have addressed approx- imately one-third of the security issues cited by auditors. ³7KHRWKHUWZRWKLUGVZH¶YH PDGH VLJQL¿FDQW SURJUHVV´ 6KHOE\VDLG³%\WKDW,PHDQ percent to 75 percent of what we WKLQNZHQHHGWRGR´ Shelby said the Department of Administrative Services agreed with all the auditors’ recommen- dations, which called for the agen- cy to purchase new tools as well DVGH¿QHDQGGRFXPHQWLWVVHFXUL- ty processes. Hackers recently accessed data at the center, Gov. Kate Brown revealed last month, but Shelby said that breach was un- related to the security problems DXGLWRUV LGHQWL¿HG +RZHYHU Shelby said one of the of the sug- gestions auditors laid out in the letter would have helped IT staff to more quickly assess which types of data attackers accessed. The state data center had not yet installed centralized log man- agement software, which would have allowed employees to more quickly assess the scope of the data breach, Shelby said. ³<RX¿QGRXWWKDWWKHGRRU¶V XQORFNHG RU D ZLQGRZ¶V RSHQ´ 6KHOE\VDLG³7KHQH[WVWHSLVWR ¿QGRXWLIDQ\WKLQJ¶VEHHQWDNHQ RUPRYHG´ The data center is now in the process of installing the central- ized log management software, an improvement that was planned before the breach. IT employ- ees ultimately learned hackers had accessed metadata about the movement of information across the state computer network. The public portion of the 2012 data center security audit only hinted at the security vulnerabili- ties that auditors found. It focused on improper handling of media tapes and incomplete or not fully tested recovery programs used af- ter events such as major computer crashes. The only mention of weak- nesses that could leave the center vulnerable to hackers was a single VHQWHQFHWKDWVWDWHG¿QGLQJVRID security review, one of the two objectives of the audit, were sum- PDUL]HGLQWKHFRQ¿GHQWLDOOHWWHU to Jordan. The report was unusual be- cause state auditors usually pro- vide at least a general description of the range of problems they found and analysis of the caus- es. For example, a 2010 audit of security at the data center clearly stated there were problems. ³,Q RXU SULRU DXGLWV RI WKH VWDWH GDWD FHQWHU ZH LGHQWL¿HG VLJQL¿FDQW VHFXULW\ ZHDNQHVVHV that collectively heightened the risk that applications hosted at the (state data center) could be FRPSURPLVHG´ DXGLWRUV ZURWH ³'XULQJWKLVDXGLWZHFRQ¿UPHG that most of these security issues FRQWLQXHGWRH[LVW´ A spokeswoman for Brown, who was secretary of state and oversaw the Audits Division in 2012, referred questions about why the 2012 security concerns were kept secret to the current Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins. Tony Green, a spokesman for At- kins, said it would require a fair DPRXQWRIUHVHDUFKWR¿JXUHRXW why auditors disclosed security concerns in 2010 but not in 2012. ³%XW JHQHUDOO\ VSHDNLQJ DX- ditors weigh the security risks known at that time against the best way to get the recommenda- WLRQVLPSOHPHQWHG´*UHHQZURWH LQDQHPDLO³%HWZHHQDQG vice, and has relied on federal subsidies to pay for part of the cost. But those subsidies have SALEM — One key now ended. legislator says Oregon will In the next two-year bud- continue state-supported get cycle starting July 1, the passenger rail service be- state will have to pick up the tween Portland and Eu- full cost of the service af- gene, despite press reports ter ticket sales, which cover about two-thirds of the bill. suggesting otherwise. Courtesy Oregon Department of But before that happens, Sen. Betsy Johnson, Transportation Johnson says Amtrak has D-Scappoose, says law- makers will come up with A top Democratic lawmak- to do something about the enough money to contin- er says the Legislature will schedule to make the service ue twice-daily runs in the come up with the $10.4 mil- more appealing to riders. lion necessary to fund pas- 7KH¿UVWWUDLQOHDYHV3RUW- Willamette Valley. ³7KHUH LV QR VWRU\ senger rail service in the land at 6 a.m. on weekdays, too early for potential com- KHUH´VD\V-RKQVRQZKR¶V Willamette Valley. muters bound for work in the Senate co-chairwoman of the Legislature’s joint likely have to end passenger Salem. Prior Jan. 1, 2014, the budget subcommittee on VHUYLFH´ VD\V 6KHOOH\ 6QRZ ¿UVWWUDLQOHIWDWDP² transportation and eco- a spokeswoman for the Ore- too late for commuters. gon Department of Transpor- ³,W¶VDOOPHVVHGXS´-RKQ- nomic development. son says. On Dec. 1, former Gov. tation. Johnson said that’s not go- According to the Oregon John Kitzhaber’s budget Department of Transporta- package proposed $10.4 ing to happen. The elimination of the tion, only 5,529 riders took million in subsidies from the general fund to Am- service would prove embar- the early morning train south trak to operate the service. UDVVLQJ WR VWDWH RI¿FLDOV ZKR in all of 2014, compared to That’s in addition to around in 2009 used $38.4 million to 45,858 who boarded in Port- $18 million the state kicks buy two locomotives and pas- land at 6 p.m. for the last in from non-general fund senger cars for two trains to southbound run. 7KLV VWRU\ ¿UVW DSSHDUHG service the Oregon corridor. sources. in the Oregon Capital Insider So far, the Legislature’s They began service in 2013. Oregon contracts with newsletter. To subscribe, go to budget framework propos- es just $5 million in state Amtrak to provide the ser- oregoncapitalinsider.com general funds. But without the full PLOOLRQ ³ZH ZLOO WKH ULVNEHQH¿W DQDO\VLV SURGXFHGGLIIHUHQWDQVZHUV´ The Secretary of State’s Of- ¿FH DOVR GHFOLQHG WR UHOHDVH WKH 2012 letter. ³,I \RX SXEOLVK D UHSRUW WKDW says this agency is vulnerable to a hack that’s kind of like printing DQ LQYLWDWLRQ WR KDFN LW´ *UHHQ wrote. Brown’s communications di- rector Kristen Grainger said that as secretary of state and now as governor, Brown has also shared the concern that identifying se- curity weaknesses could make it easier for attackers to access Or- egonians’ data. ³,WKLQNWRDFHUWDLQH[WHQWVKH wants to be very careful not to bring this to the attention of hack- ers or people who would do harm WRWKHVWDWH¶V,7HIIRUWV´*UDLQJHU said. However, Grainger said Brown wants to address what KDVEHFRPHD³ORQJOLQH´RIGDWD breaches at state agencies — hackers accessed databases at the 6HFUHWDU\RI6WDWH¶V2I¿FHDQGWKH Oregon Employment Department in 2014 — and that is why the governor wants to hire an inde- pendent expert to review state IT management and vulnerabilities. The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Me- dia Group and Pamplin Media Group. By PETER WONG Capital Bureau W A NTED S ou s a tradition The C O N D U CT E D B Y D A VE B ECK ER NORTH COAST SYMPHONIC BAND 2:00 PM SU N D AY N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 I’ve told Mom the same thing three times …but she seems to keep forgetting. IT’S NOT LIKE HER. 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