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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2016
Fort Clatsop: Park recently received $45,000 in federal funding
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“The park realizes we are
ineficient in our low and vol-
ume,” Matt Shaefer, the park’s
chief of facility management,
said.
The national park recently
received about $45,000 in fed-
eral funding to design a new
water system in the park and
a new water line across the
Lewis and Clark River. Design
work is expected to be com-
plete by next year, with con-
struction targeted to start in
2018.
An upgraded water supply
will not only help protect Fort
Clatsop from ire, but also the
park’s administrative ofice,
maintenance shop and visi-
tor’s center that houses a full
museum collection.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
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National Guardsman and others work to clean up after the 2005 fire at Fort Clatsop.
Overdue for rehab
Following the Fort Clatsop
ire, an investigation revealed
the park’s water system was
overdue for rehabilitation. The
water system dates back to
when Fort Clatsop National
Memorial was created more
than a half century ago.
In addition, the park found
the water line across the
nearby river was much smaller
than other portions of the line.
The water line anchored to
the bottom of the river has a
2-inch diameter. Oficials esti-
mate the line should have a
6-inch diameter to provide suf-
icient water low.
The water low coming
out of the park’s ire hydrants
is 70 gallons per minute. Fire
departments recommend that
hydrant low should be 1,500
gallons per minute.
Shaefer said the park is
partnering with Lewis and
Clark Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment and the Lewis and Clark
Water District to design the
new water system and line.
The partners are discussing
relocating a ire hydrant closer
to Fort Clatsop and improving
the water volume.
“We are in the exploratory
phases of inding a good way
to partner with the water dis-
trict to help facilitate a good
permanent ix,” Shaefer said.
Fire detection
At the Fort Clatsop ire,
Scott Tucker, superintendent of Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park, and Matt Shaefer, the park’s chief of facil-
ity management, points out the location of a small pipe
that restricts water flow to the park. The water line (shown
in red) anchored to the bottom of the Lewis and Clark river
has a 2-inch diameter. Officials estimate the line should
have a 6-inch diameter to provide sufficient water flow.
‘We will get a phone call
in the middle of the night
saying there is something
wrong. That’s what didn’t
happen at the fort last time.’
Matt Shaefer
the park’s chief of facility management
fully involved and there was
no chance of saving anything.”
‘Rest assured’
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Matt Shaefer, the park’s chief of facility management, stands near a receiver that works
as part of the park’s fire-alarm system.
ireighters had a constant rota-
tion of trucks coming through
to help supplement the park’s
water supply. Without sup-
port from the ire trucks, the
park’s water low would have
petered out, Lewis and Clark
Fire Chief Jeff Golightly said.
A redesigned water system
would take some pressure off
the ire departments.
“It would have helped us
a lot as far as the suppression
effort to have water readily
available,” Golightly said.
When the new Fort Clatsop
structure was built, it included
a ire detection system con-
nected to an alarm. The sys-
tem is hidden in the corners of
the fort.
The ire detection sys-
tem notiies the park and ire
departments right way if some-
thing is wrong.
“We will get a phone call
in the middle of the night say-
ing there is something wrong,”
Shaefer said. “That’s what
didn’t happen at the fort last
time.”
The ire was irst reported
the night of Oct. 3, 2005, by
an Astoria resident who saw
a bright glow south of Youngs
Bay. The 50-year-old replica
fort was fully engulfed in
lames by the time ire crews
arrived.
“It was originally reported
as lights in the fog,” Golightly
said. “It was disregarded until
someone actually drove by and
saw it burning and called. By
the time we got there, it was
Area ire departments regu-
larly hold training at Fort Clat-
sop to prepare in case they are
called upon. With or without
an adequate water system at
the park, Golightly said, his
department is ready.
“Depending on the nature
of the ire, even after the sys-
tem is redesigned, I would still
have a minimum of two to
three tenders to supplement the
water supply,” Golightly said.
Scott Tucker, Lewis and
Clark National Historical
Park superintendent, said he
trusts the ire departments to
respond in time to an emer-
gency. Upgrades to the sprin-
klers and ire hydrant will be
an added beneit.
“Rest assured, if there
were to be a ire, we do have
a response plan,” Tucker said.
The park has been mak-
ing do without the necessary
water pressure for more than a
decade since the ire. The inad-
equate water system is one of
many backlogged maintenance
projects that go unfunded each
year.
Deferred
maintenance
— the cost of maintenance
not performed when sched-
uled and put off or delayed —
totaled $1.4 million at the park
in iscal year 2014-2015.
The total deferred main-
tenance in Oregon national
parks reached $104 million
last iscal year.
While the design for the
new water system has been
funded, Shaefer said, the
National Park Service still
needs to sign off on funding
the construction work.
Revamping the park’s
water system should be a top
priority, he said, considering
it helps protect a national park
valued at $12.3 million.
“Putting money toward ire
protection is deinitely money
well-spent,” Shaefer said.
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