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By LYRA FONTAINE
EO Media Group
CANNON BEACH —
Tangled and downed power
lines could lead to blocked
roads and chaos during an
emergency.
The city is in the midst
of an effort to get those lines
underground, lessening the
impact from outages and
removing ugly poles from the
streets.
The Cannon Beach City
Council has discussed the
possibility of eventually con-
verting downtown businesses
to underground services.
This would mean power
lines would be placed
underground and overhead
poles and wiring would be
removed.
The council primarily
wants to move power lines
‘When we have an
earthquake, the biggest
obstacle that occurs
to evacuation routes is
downed power lines.’
Dan Grassick
Cannon Beach public works director
underground to improve
downtown aesthetics and
scenery, Public Works Direc-
tor Dan Grassick said, but
safety is another reason.
“When we have an earth-
quake, the biggest obsta-
cle that occurs to evacua-
tion routes is downed power
lines,” Grassick said.
When lines shake loose
and come down, they will
pull adjacent lines down as
well, blocking roadways and
escape routes.
“The best thing that
coastal communities can do
is put power lines under-
ground,” Grassick said. “It’s
better to have the power sys-
tem come undone under-
ground than above ground.”
If the city chooses to
move forward with the proj-
ect, it would take several
years to complete because of
its large scope, which may
include new street lights and
sidewalks.
A 2010 Cannon Beach
tsunami evacuation meet-
ing pointed to the need for
underground utilities to pre-
vent emergency evacuation
routes from being blocked
by downed power lines in
the aftermath of a quake or
tsunami.
Last fall, at an emergency
management meeting, Police
Chief Jason Schermerhorn
said while trees and telephone
poles are concerns for Can-
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power lines are greater risks.
A 2015 Oregon Natu-
ral Hazards Mitigation Plan
describes similar projects in
Linn County, Benton County
and elsewhere as ways to
“enhance safety and reduce
losses” during storms and
other emergencies.
It is still unclear what put-
ting power lines underground
would cost Cannon Beach or
downtown businesses.
“Because this is a beau-
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would be borne by the city,”
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ness manager Alisa Dunlap
said.
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report to the council the cost
of a project estimate.
State rules in place to protect snowy plovers
City Council shifts
money from cemetery
to parks software
Mayor, police
chief also swear
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By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria City Council
voted Monday night to spend
more than $126,600 on new
point of sale and registration
software for the city’s Parks
and Recreation Department.
The recreation management
system is expected to improve
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The City Council had
approved $55,000 toward the
new system in this year’s bud-
get. Councilors decided Mon-
day night, however, to shift
about $72,000 in the budget
for weed eradication at Ocean
View Cemetery in Warrenton to
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Councilors in December
chose not to release the money
Warrenton Police appoint
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By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
The Daily Astorian
The state Department of
Parks and Recreation is warn-
ing springtime visitors about
snowy plovers nesting on
beaches.
The tiny shorebird, pro-
tected under state law and
under the federal Endan-
gered Species Act, usually
begins nesting along in mid-
March. The birds nest in dry
open sand, in tiny, shallow,
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The nests are easy to miss,
and plovers will abandon
their eggs if repeatedly dis-
turbed by activities they con-
sider a threat.
The Department of Parks
and Recreation, which has
legal agreements with the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vice, manages sites where
snowy plovers actively nest,
and sites where the habitat
has been designated as condu-
cive to nesting. Based on this,
recreation restrictions vary.
Riding bicycles or driv-
ing is not allowed during
nesting season on any stretch
of beach managed for plo-
vers. Where plovers actively
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A snowy plover stands on the beach near a small chunk of wood in Leadbetter Point,
Washington.
nest, the dry sand around
the nesting area is signed to
keep people from acciden-
tally crushing the well-cam-
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limited to the wet sand por-
tion of the beach. Kites and
dogs (leashed or unleashed)
are not allowed anywhere in
active nesting areas until the
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end of the nesting season on
Sept. 15.
Most plover breeding
areas in Oregon range from
Florence south to Bandon. In
recent years, though, a smat-
tering of nests have popped up
at some North Coast beaches,
a sign that holds promise for
the animal’s overall popula-
tion in Oregon and Washing-
ton state. The 2-mile Nehalem
Spit, just south of the entrance
to Nehalem Bay State Park,
will restrict vehicles, dogs,
and kites from until Sept. 15.
The northern 3 miles of beach
in the park are open to kites,
dogs, bikes, horses and all
other recreation.
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patrol, Warrenton Police Chief
Mathew Workman now has the
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position to the department.
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detective.
Bussert will work with detec-
tives from other agencies on the
Clatsop County Major Crimes
Team. The detective position
will be on a three-year rotation.
Creating the position has
been a goal for more than a
decade, Workman said. The
department tried adding a detec-
tive over the years, but never
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we have been trying to do some-
thing like this,” Workman said.
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named ‘detective.’ It’s not the
same. A lot of times they are not
available because they are on a
patrol schedule.”
Bussert will be taken off
patrol to focus on detective
work.
In addition, Workman plans
to add a permanent day shift
position to work 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday. The
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to spend more time in the high
school and grade schools.
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students and teachers can visit at
scheduled times.
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liaison to the schools, Work-
man said, which will be great
for improving relationships
between the schools and police
department.
Warrenton Police have 12
sworn position, including Work-
man, and one administrative
position.
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for weed eradication at Ocean
View because some worried
the funds would be wasted if
parks staff did not keep up with
maintenance.
In other business Monday
night:
The City Council, act-
ing as the Astoria Develop-
ment Commission, asked staff
to study an amendment that
would add Bond Street to the
Astor West Urban Renewal
District.
The move could help the
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potentially reopen Bond Street
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suffered through landslides.
Mayor Arline LaMear and
Police Chief Brad Johnston
swore in Kevin Berry as a new
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Berry is an Astoria High
School graduate who has
worked at the Oregon Depart-
ment of Forestry. His mother,
Diane Berry, is the owner of
Bloomin Crazy Floral.
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