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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 Emergency Board OKs $5 million for school lead tests Money is a starting point By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — The Oregon Emergency Board on Friday approved $5 million to help pay for the cost of testing for lead in school drinking water. The action sets up a fund at the state Department of Edu- cation. School districts may request reimbursement for costs associated with lead test- ing by submitting invoices with the education department. Lawmakers pledged to provide some kind of inan- cial assistance to districts after the Oregon Health Authority and the education department last summer asked districts to test for lead in school water supplies. The request followed wide- spread media coverage of a scandal in Portland Pub- lic Schools over lead in drink- ing water that went unreported. Since then, several other school districts have found unsafe lev- els of lead in campus drinking water. State House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, who co-chairs the emergency board, said the support is “a testament to our responsiveness to this issue.” The $5 million will serve as a placeholder until state educa- tion oficials gain a better sense of how much school districts will request for reimbursement, said Doug Wilson, a legislative iscal analyst. Kotek emphasized Fri- day that the $5 million is only a starting point for assisting schools with the lead crisis. She said she anticipates that school districts also will request help in paying for lead mitigation. Portland container shipping faces broad challenges Turmoil is disruptive beyond labor disputes By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Bureau SALEM — Labor dis- putes are often blamed for discontinued ocean container shipping at the Port of Port- land, but the facility faces broader problems, a port executive said. Even if conlicts between the port, the terminal opera- tor and the longshoremen’s union were resolved, turmoil in the global shipping indus- try would affect the facility, said Keith Leavitt, the port’s chief commercial oficer. “There’s no one silver bul- let here,” Leavitt said during a hearing Thursday before the Oregon House Interim Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources. Ocean carriers ordered gigantic “megaships” nearly a decade ago that can carry a huge number of containers with the idea of improving eficiency, he said. Now that the vessels have come online, though, there’s not enough cargo to justify the investment, Leavitt said. “They are not illing those vessels because the demand for space on those vessels is not keeping up with capac- ity,” he said. As a result, the price of freight on ocean liners has dropped so low that ship- ping companies aren’t able to pay off debts, which recently caused the bankruptcy of Hanjin, a company that long serviced the Port of Portland before stopping service last year, he said. Capital Press/File Photo A container ship is loaded at the Port of Portland. Ocean carrier service at the Terminal 6 facility has since stopped. The Port of Portland’s ocean container terminal faces broader problems than a labor dispute that effec- tively discontinued shipping at the facility last year, ac- cording to a port official. lems will be sorted out over the next several years, but even then, Port of Portland’s Terminal 6 will face some headwinds. The new “megaships” carry up to 25,000, 20-foot- long containers, but the Port of Portland can only handle ships that carry 7,000 such containers, he said. “The megaships are just not going to be calling on the Columbia River,” said Leavitt. However, it’s dificult to imagine that Paciic Ocean shipping will be reduced to megaships traveling between large ports in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, he said. Terminal 6 should be able to attract some vessels, but the facility’s niche is likely to be more “surgical” than it was in the past, he said. “We’re a niche port, we always have been,” Leavitt said. The Daily Astorian CLACKAMAS — Fish on through Friday for hatchery Chinook salmon from Buoy 10 upstream to the Warrior Rock/ Bachelor Island deadline, under rules adopted by ishery manag- ers from Oregon and Washing- ton state. The season extension is the third this month. After that, both areas are scheduled to reopen to retention of any Chinook, effec- tive Saturday through the end of A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 the year under permanent rules. The action means only hatchery Chinook may be kept from Buoy 10 upstream to Warrior Rock through Friday. All wild ish must be released unharmed. The daily adult bag limit is two salmonids a day, of which only one may be a Chi- nook and only one may be a hatchery steelhead. For more information, visit the ODFW’s online Regula- tion Update Page at http://bit. ly/2cPBXnP. City hires code enforcement oficer The Daily Astorian Astoria has hired a new code enforcement oficer and building oficial. Ben Small, a licensed com- mercial plumber, will start in October. He has worked for St. Helens and Clatsop County. ll Ca ime yt n A The City Council will con- sider hiring a contractor to pro- vide commercial plan review and inspection services while Small is trained for his new role. A coffee hour with Small is scheduled for 8 a.m. Oct. 5 at City Hall. 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Buoy 10, lower Columbia River Chinook seasons grow Dawn McIntosh rejoins Campbell & Popkin Stranded cargo Because ports are afraid of not getting paid for load- ing and unloading containers from Hanjin ships, that’s left a lot of cargo stranded across the globe, including North- west farm goods, Leavitt said. Leavitt said he expects the shipping industry’s prob- Baled straw Shelly Boshart Davis, whose family owns farm- ing and trucking operations, agreed that the resump- tion of activity at Termi- nal 6 “wouldn’t ix every- thing,” but it would help Oregon agriculture remain competitive. Baled straw was, by vol- ume, the largest Oregon export commodity to depend on containerized shipping from the Port of Portland, said Boshart Davis. Even so, less than 40 percent of the state’s straw volume passed through that facility. When productivity at West Coast ports severely declined during labor con- tract negotiations between longshoremen and port oper- ators in late 2014, straw that would have been exported to Asia backed up in Oregon, she said. That higher inventory, in turn, depressed prices for growers, Boshart Davis said. Shipping complications have also affected the Christ- mas tree industry, particu- larly in export destinations like the Philippines, where retailers expect to display trees by mid-November, said Gayla Hansen of Kirk Inter- national, which exports trees. The Oregon Association of School Business Oficials con- ducted a survey of school dis- tricts this summer to try to esti- mate the cost of testing. About 100 districts, representing about half of the state student population, responded. The $5 million igure is roughly based on those districts’ responses, Wilson said. 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