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Newspaper Page Text2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2016 Congress passes bill to improve water quality in Columbia River By GEORGE PLAVEN EO Media Group Congress has passed a bill authorizing the U.S. Envi- ronmental Protection Agency to establish a competitive, voluntary grant program for environmental cleanup work in the Columbia River. The Columbia River Res- toration Act was included as part of the federal Water Resources Development Act of 2016, which lawmakers approved Friday . Grants could help pay for projects that improve water quality in the basin, reduce pollution or clean up contam- inated sites. Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merk- ley, both Democrats, cheered the legislation, which was supported by a diverse group of environmental, tribal and industry groups. “Nobody wants to worry that the water they are drink- ing or ﬁ shing in or swim- ming in is tainted, but eight million inhabitants of the Columbia River Basin have had their health, safety and environment endangered by toxins in the river,” Merk- ley said. “Now, Congress is ﬁ nally doing something about it.” The Columbia River is the largest river in the North- west, with a drainage basin roughly the size of France. It is historically the largest salmon-producing river sys- tem in the world, with annual returns peaking at around 16 million ﬁ sh. However, the basin is the only large aquatic ecosystem in the U.S. that receives no dedicated funding to clean up and monitor toxic chem- icals. The EPA has identiﬁ ed numerous toxins in the basin, including arsenic, lead, pes- ticides and ﬂ ame retardants. High levels of pollutants can New fund helps removal of Western U.S. dams build up in the fatty tissue of ﬁ sh and lamprey, which are consumed by people and can cause signiﬁ cant health problems and birth defects. “Preserving and protect- ing the river is a must to ensure the river remains the clean and healthy lifeblood of our region,” Wyden said. The program does not add any new EPA regula- tions. The bill was supported by the Columbia River Inter- Tribal Fish Commission — representing the Umatilla, Yakama, Warm Springs and Nez Perce tribes — as well as the Paciﬁ c Northwest Water- ways Association, Lower Columbia Estuary Partner- ship and Salmon-Safe. Local tribes also praised another bill contained within the Water Resources Devel- opment Act that will ensure the return of the Kennewick Man, or Ancient One, for a proper burial. A $50 million grant for rivers By DAN WHEAT EO Media Group Dam removal projects in Oregon, Washington state and California are receiving money from a new fund set up by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for dam removal and river restoration in the West. The foundation, based in Menlo Park, California , marked its 50th anniversary in November by announc- ing a $50 million grant to the Resources Legacy Fund to establish the new Open Riv- ers Fund. It is the largest fund dedi- cated to supporting local com- munity efforts to remove obso- lete dams and restore rivers. During the next 10 years, the Open Rivers Fund will sup- port dam removal, related river restoration and infrastructure modernization. There are more than 14,000 dams across the country identiﬁ ed by engi- neering experts as high hazard, according to the foundation. “Once communities come together and agree to remove a dam, there is often little money available,” said Larry Kramer, foundation president. Open Rivers Fund inaugu- ral grants are: • $215,000 to help with removal of a series of small dams and obstructions in Ore- Housing authority seeking applicants The Daily Astorian The Northwest Oregon Housing Authority Board of Commissioners is looking to ﬁ ll an open seat. The position is for a term ending Dec. 31, 2019. The housing authority owns and manages housing for low- and moderate-income people and administers vari- ous federal housing assistance programs in Clatsop, Colum- bia and Tillamook counties. The board normally meets once a month; the location rotates among the counties. To apply, pick up an appli- cation form and return it to the Clatsop County Manag- er’s Ofﬁ ce at 800 Exchange St., Suite 410, Astoria, Ore., 97103. Forms are available at the County Manager’s Ofﬁ ce or on the county website www.co.clatsop.or.us. FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 41 29 32 Cold with increasing clouds FRIDAY 41 30 Chilly with clouds breaking for some sun SATURDAY 40 27 Mostly cloudy and chilly with a shower Justin Clifton/Hewlett Foundation Matilija Dam near Ventura, Calif., is 160 feet tall and is targeted for removal by the Open Rivers Fund. gon’s Rogue River basin. • $175,000 to help with removal of Matilija Dam in Ventura, California. • $75,000 to assist in removing Nelson Dam in Yakima, Washington. Economic and environ- mental beneﬁ ts have led to broad community support for the removals which help ﬁ sh habitat, according to the foundation. The Rogue River basin work builds on the removal of Gold Hill, Gold Ray and Savage Rapids dams, already accomplished and resulting in free ﬂ ow of the river for more than 150 miles. The new work addresses several other river impedi- ments including removal of the 5.5-foot Beeson-Robin- son diversion dam on Wag- ner Creek in the Bear Creek sub-basin, near Talent, Oregon. Beeson-Robinson serves 19 41 31 OBITUARIES Mostly cloudy, a little rain; chilly Partly sunny and chilly irrigators but blocks upstream ﬁ sh movement. A diversion channel will serve the irriga- tors when the dam is removed. Matilija Dam is 160 feet tall and has a 7,000 acre-foot reservoir 90 percent ﬁ lled with sediment on Matilija Creek, a tributary of Ventura River and 15.6 miles upriver from the Paciﬁ c Ocean, according to the Hewlett Foundation. The dam’s sediment trapping con- tributes to ocean beach ero- sion and has made it ineffec- tive for its original purpose as water storage for agriculture. The dam also blocks steel- head spawning habitat. Local groups have been working toward removal. Nelson Dam on the Naches River near Yakima is 8 feet tall, 190 feet long and is owned by the city. Its diversion serves orchards and city residences. Removal and consolidation with two downstream diver- sions into one new diversion structure will cost about $8 million, mainly funded by city bonds and other grants, said Joel Freudenthal, senior nat- ural resources specialist for Yakima County. The changes will beneﬁ t ﬁ sh and will increase diver- sion ﬂ ow for irrigators from the 35 to 40 cubic feet per second range to about 57 cfs, Freudenthal said. The Nach- es-Cowiche Canal Co., which also receives water from the diversion, supports the proj- ect. Work will hopefully start in 2018, he said. Sandra L. Watters Seaside Sept. 1, 1943 — Dec. 2, 2016 ALMANAC Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 32/41 Tillamook 30/35 Salem 30/36 Newport 33/38 Last Dec 13 New Dec 20 Coos Bay 38/45 First Dec 28 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 7:00 a.m. 7:58 p.m. Low 2.5 ft. -1.5 ft. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC Klamath Falls 31/42 Lakeview 28/40 Ashland 36/49 REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 24 28 50 41 44 40 46 40 46 48 Today Lo 10 16 43 30 34 31 38 30 33 38 W pc c c c pc c c c c c Hi 26 23 52 35 41 42 48 34 38 46 Wed. Lo 18 19 41 30 33 34 39 27 33 38 W sn sn r sn pc sn r sn r r City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 40 23 42 42 42 45 18 40 41 32 Today Lo 25 14 31 36 30 34 2 31 30 14 W s c c c c pc s c c pc Hi 36 19 35 44 36 40 19 38 34 28 Wed. Lo 25 15 29 38 29 32 14 32 29 17 W pc sn sn r sn pc c i sn pc TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Today Hi Lo 60 45 40 30 17 2 42 14 20 14 30 8 70 44 -13 -20 78 67 33 9 27 16 64 48 66 53 52 33 83 70 48 32 74 58 42 34 42 23 43 33 37 16 42 29 59 53 40 28 47 35 Burns 16/28 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 Tonight's Sky: The Full 'Frost' moon (4:05 p.m.) will be at its highest altitude of 63 degrees above the southern horizon for the year. High 8.6 ft. 10.6 ft. Baker 10/26 Ontario 17/29 Bend 16/23 Medford 38/48 Jan 5 John Day 22/34 La Grande 16/30 Roseburg 36/44 Brookings 43/53 UNDER THE SKY Time 1:29 a.m. 12:52 p.m. Prineville 16/25 Lebanon 30/37 Eugene 30/35 SUN AND MOON Sunset tonight ........................... 4:30 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:51 a.m. Moonrise today .......................... 4:52 p.m. Moonset today ............................ 7:06 a.m. Pendleton 14/19 The Dalles 23/27 Portland 31/35 Precipitation Monday ............................................ 0.31" Month to date ................................... 5.57" Normal month to date ....................... 4.03" Year to date .................................... 82.07" Normal year to date ........................ 61.65" Full Sandra L. Watters passed on Dec. 2, 2016, in She is survived by her sons Dan Dougherty Seaside, Oregon. She was born on Sept. 1, 1943, and Ted Uriech; two granddaughters, Athena Dougherty and Shyanne Dough- in Portland, Oregon, to Donald and Ida erty; grandson Parker; great-grand- Sessler. She grew up and attended Jef- children Raven and Kaylani; and ferson High School, where she started her longtime boyfriend, Frank her volunteer career at the hospital Hoge. with “Youth for Christ.” She went on She was very loving and caring to, and retired from, AT&T, and also and will be truly missed. worked as a caregiver for many years Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & in the Clatsop County area. Crematory in Seaside is in charge She continued giving as mem- of arrangements. Please visit www. ber of the Elks, American Legion, hughes-ransom.com to share mem- Moose and the Eagles, providing Sandra Watters ories and sign the guest book. many hours of volunteer work to all. REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Monday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 48°/38° Normal high/low ........................... 49°/36° Record high ............................ 61° in 2002 Record low ............................. 10° in 1919 W r pc pc c pc sn pc c s sn pc pc pc pc sh sh t pc pc c pc c c s c Hi 58 39 16 26 20 20 70 -5 77 24 29 66 67 46 83 43 64 40 41 42 32 42 62 38 44 Wed. Lo 32 24 -3 10 4 6 42 -13 66 5 14 51 55 25 67 20 46 24 22 25 14 41 56 29 27 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc pc c s sf pc s pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s sn r pc pc DEATHS BIRTH Dec. 11, 2016 McKINNEY, Steven Michael, 35, of Astoria, died in Seaside. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory in Seaside is in charge of the arrangements. Visit www.hughes-ransom.com to share memories and sign the guest book. Dec. 12, 2016 WAYRYNEN, Larry, 72, of Astoria, died in Portland. Cald- well’s Luce-Layton Mortuary in Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. Dec. 3, 2016 ALLEN, Nikole and Daniel, of New Haven, Connecticut, a boy, Lucas Gebre Allen, born at St. Raphael Yale-New Haven Hospital. Grandparents are Karl and Janet Engel of Florence, and Denise Allen and Steve and Karen Allen, all of Astoria. Great-grand- parents are Rosemary Bosch of Woodland, Wash- ington, and Bunny Engel if Lynnwood, Washington. PUBLIC MEETINGS TUESDAY Cannon Beach City Council, 5:30 p.m., work session, City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Warrenton City Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave. Lewis & Clark Fire Depart- ment Board, 7 p.m., main ﬁ re station, 34571 Highway 101 Business. WEDNESDAY Clatsop Soil and Water Con- servation District Board, 10 a.m., OSU Seafood Lab Center, Conference Room 231, 2001 Marine Drive. Clatsop County Housing Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Authority Board, 5 p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Commercial St., Astoria. Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Commercial St., Astoria. Astoria School Board, 6:15 p.m., study session, 7:30 p.m., regular meeting, Capt. Robert Gray School third-ﬂ oor board- room, 785 Alameda Ave. Warrenton-Hammond School Board, 7 p.m., Warrenton Grade School multipurpose room, 820 S.W. Cedar Ave. Wickiup Water District Board, 6:30 p.m., 92648 Svensen Mar- ket Road, Svensen. OBITUARY POLICY APPLIANCE PACKAGE DEALS APPLIANCE AND HOME FURNISHINGS 529 SE MARLIN, WARRENTON 503-861-0929 O VER Mattresses, Furniture 3 A 0 RS YE IN TSOP C LA U Y C O NT & More! HOURS OPEN: MON-FRI 8-6 • SATURDAY 9-5 • SUNDAY 10-4 We Service What We Sell The Daily Astorian publishes paid obituaries. The obitu- ary can include a small photo and, for veterans, a ﬂ ag sym- bol at no charge. The deadline for all obituaries is 9 a.m. the business day prior. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctuation and style. Death notices and upcoming services will be pub- lished at no charge. Notices must be submitted by 9 a.m. the day of publication. The Daily Astorian Established July 1, 1873 (USPS 035-000) Published daily, except Saturday and Sunday, by EO Media Group, 949 Exchange St., PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Telephone 503- 325-3211, 800-781-3211 or Fax 503-325-6573. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Daily Astorian, PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103-0210 www.dailyastorian.com MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper. SUBSCRIBER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE MEMBER CERTIFIED AUDIT OF CIRCULATIONS, INC. 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