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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.
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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
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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.
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amount to defray the cost of
collection, he said.
School districts still aren’t
technically required to test for
lead. In August, the state Board
of Education — at the behest of
Gov. Kate Brown — approved
a rule that requires school dis-
tricts to submit a plan for test-
ing for lead in water and other
toxins in school environments
and to report any results to the
public, but the rule doesn’t
require actual testing.
Buoy 10, lower Columbia
River Chinook seasons grow
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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.
That amount comes out
to about $35 for each lab test,
including testing and a small
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