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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015
BROOKE DULING — North Coast Watershed Association
Chris Farrar from the Nicolai-Wickiup Watershed Council and North Coast Watershed Association assesses the condition of the parking lot at Big Creek in Knappa.
Local firms step up for Big Creek
Project helps decrease erosion and enhance fish habitat and water quality
The Daily Astorian
KNAPPA — Local com-
panies quickly responded in
April when the North Coast
Watershed Association need-
ed help with a project to im-
prove a public access site
along Big Creek.
The site off Old Highway
30 was worn out from heavy
use and off-road driving and
had a large mud puddle.
The Nicolai-Wickiup Wa-
tershed Council, a subcouncil
of the North Coast Water-
shed Association, received a
$1,960 grant from the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wild-
life to overhaul the parking lot
with new gravel and boulders.
Vinson Brothers Construc-
tion was hired for the project,
but Teevin Bros. donated the
boulders and Hampton Affili-
ates donated the gravel.
“The local companies were
really helpful,” said Brooke
Duling, the new watershed
coordinator for the North
Coast Watershed Association.
“I was impressed with how
generous they were for this
project.”
Filling the mud puddle
and using boulders to protect
vegetation from vehicles is
expected to help decrease ero-
sion and improve fish habitat
and water quality along Big
Creek.
The parking lot at Big Creek in Knappa was transformed, using a $1,960 grant from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and donations from
Hampton Affiliates and Teevin Bros.
A mud puddle
occupies the
parking lot next
to Big Creek in
Knappa before
work began to
gravel the lot.
Vinson Bros.
was hired to
gravel and
place boulders
in the Big Creek
parking lots.
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