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Oil terminal: Ferry: ‘It’s not a cheap operation’
Would have a
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360,000 barrels
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that if the Astoria Ferry can-
not meet the financial ask and
recruit board members with
maritime expertise to move the
Tourist No. 2 toward certifica-
tion by then, the nonprofit will
dissolve and leave the vessel to
owner Christian Lint.
Continued from Page 1A
After working with city
staff, they submitted a res-
olution to the council that
reflected their concerns in
general and the concerns
they believed were especially
unique to Astoria’s position
at the mouth of the river.
“It is very important for
the mouth to have a voice,”
said Dan Serres, conserva-
tion director for Columbia
Riverkeeper.
The terminal would have
a daily output of 360,000
barrels of crude oil, which
would be carried by five
mile-and-a-half long trains
and then put on tankers to
cross the Columbia River
Bar.
Though the City Council
as a whole shared the group’s
concern for the safety of the
estuary, Jones, a retired Sec-
tor Columbia River Com-
mander for the U.S. Coast
Guard, said in July that he
needed to look at safety
standards, studies and envi-
ronmental impact state-
ments before he could sign a
resolution.
After conducting research
and looking into a derailment
that occurred last summer in
Mosier that released 42,000
gallons of oil into the envi-
ronment, Jones was ready to
make his decision.
He was against the termi-
nal project.
There were still too many
safety concerns on the rail
side of things and no guaran-
tee that state and federal rec-
ommendations to increase
rail safety would be fol-
lowed, or implemented in a
timely manner, he said.
“I think they ought to
work those kinks out some-
where other than these sen-
sitive environmental areas,”
he said.
But he wanted to make
sure the resolution the City
Council adopted was well-
rounded and reflected the
council’s views. He submit-
ted his own rewrite of the
environmental groups’ reso-
lution for the other council-
ors to consider. There was
nothing wrong with the res-
olution from Columbia Riv-
erkeeper and the activist
groups, he said later, but it
reflected a one-sided view of
the issue.
“I think the benefits of
the terminal project to Asto-
ria definitely don’t out-
weigh the risks,” City Coun-
cilor Zetty Nemlowill said.
She added that, given Jones’
expertise and the time he put
into researching the matter,
“I’m glad that you came to
the conclusion that you came
to because if you didn’t I
wouldn’t know quite what to
do tonight.”
The entire City Coun-
cil was in favor of adopting
Jones’ version of the resolu-
tion, with one change. In his
version, he removed a para-
graph stating Astoria’s soli-
darity with the cities of Port-
land, Spokane, Vancouver
and Seattle and the Columbia
River treaty tribes in oppos-
ing the project. People who
testified Monday night urged
the council to put that word-
ing back in. Mayor Arline
LaMear agreed and the para-
graph was added back into
the resolution.
At Councilor Cindy
Price’s urging, the coun-
cil also agreed to submit its
resolution to Washington’s
Energy Facility Site Evalu-
ation Council, which is still
accepting testimony on the
project. The site evaluation
council is expected to make
its final recommendation to
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
this year.
Accomplishments
Lint and co-Capt. Jim Pea-
cock brought the Tourist No.
2 on a white-knuckle cruise
to Astoria from Bremerton,
Washington, after the non-
profit placed a $15,000 deposit
to buy the vessel on contract.
“It was a pretty horrendous
passage,” board member Dul-
cye Taylor said, adding it took
a week to get from Bremer-
ton to Cape Flattery amid high
winds and rough seas. After
reaching the ocean, she said, it
took only 20 hours to reach the
Columbia River Bar.
The Tourist No. 2 pulled
up a year and one week ago
to a crowd waiting at the
17th Street Dock. During last
year’s Astoria Regatta, the
ferry hosted several hundred
visitors.
Since the Regatta, the Tour-
ist No. 2 has been moored at
North Tongue Point, and Asto-
ria Ferry has experienced a
sobering look into the chal-
lenges of making the vessel
an operating ferry again. The
nonprofit has gathered around
$70,000 in donations and paid
nearly $40,000 toward the pur-
chase of the vessel.
Challenges
Organizers learned that
Lint’s insurer for the ves-
sel wasn’t going to renew
the policy. “Most underwrit-
ers wouldn’t agree to indem-
nify a (93)-year-old, 100-foot
all-wood structure operated
by a nonprofit group with no
history of maintaining such a
vessel,” a report from Astoria
Ferry to donors said.
Knowing the vessel could
not be acquired without insur-
ance, the nonprofit in Decem-
ber halted all fundraising and
all but the most essential main-
tenance. In April, the group
acquired a port-risk insurance
policy, which covers vessels
laid up long-term in mainte-
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
The interior of the Tourist No. 2 has several decks with ample room for entertaining tourists.
Coast Guard inspection, she
said, Astoria Ferry has esti-
mated between $400,000 and
$500,000.
Once the Tourist No. 2 is
in operation, providing pub-
lic excursions and hosting
events, Price and Taylor said
it will cost around $450,000
to $500,000 annually to oper-
ate, including the captain and
crew. But they said the non-
profit believes the vessel can
cover its own operating costs.
“It’s not a cheap operation,
but it can make its own money,
but only if it’s running,” Price
said.
New blood
Astoria Ferry Group Co-President and Treasurer Cindy
Price takes a look around the engine room of the Tourist
No. 2. Price and others with the group are trying to restore
the vessel as a tourist attraction.
nance but not public access.
Although the hull of the
Tourist No. 2 has proven
watertight, Price said the ves-
sel has experienced water
damage from above, leaving
a musty interior and a mystery
of where rain is intruding.
Astoria Ferry hoped to
use local shipwright talent
and space at North Tongue
Point for the vessel’s under-
water repairs. The nonprofit
looked into whether a cra-
dle used by local shipwrights
could be retrofitted to pull the
96-gross-ton vessel up on one
of North Tongue Point’s sea-
plane ramps. The idea proved
unworkable and left the non-
profit with around $10,000 in
outstanding naval architectural
bills.
Getting to inspection
Price said the $100,000
would provide a cushion to
help cover monthly expenses
and some repairs, while
repaying the debt and mak-
ing arrangements for haul-
out, somewhere upriver. But
to fully repair and restore the
Tourist No. 2 before U.S.
Taylor, a local business
owner and president of the
Astoria Downtown Historic
District Association, said
Astoria Ferry members have
remained upbeat throughout
the challenges, but that interest
started to wane in the spring.
Four of the group’s original
eight board members stepped
down, albeit staying on in
advisory roles.
Taylor said the group,
which includes historic pres-
ervationist Lucien Swerdloff
and Astoria Yacht Club Com-
modore Bruce Faling, is look-
ing for three or four new board
members, preferably with
some expertise and interest in
old boats. “A retired Coastie
would be great,” she said.
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going to keep watching,” said
Dan Ayres, coastal shellfish
manager with the Washing-
ton Department of Fish and
Wildlife. “We’ll just continue
to look at it and hope for the
best,” he added.
Unsafe levels of domoic
acid in razor clams shut down
digs in both states this season.
Oregon, in fact, has yet to open
for a single dig, and Washing-
ton only opened sporadically.
The
naturally-occurring
marine toxin has become a
familiar dilemma in recent
years, plaguing both recre-
ational razor clam digs and
commercial Dungeness crab-
bing efforts.
And there are other con-
cerns. While Ayres and state
biologists are seeing an explo-
sion of young razor clams far-
ther north now, Long Beach’s
populations are unusually low.
“We’re not seeing a lot
of juvenile razor clams that
should be there at Long
Beach,” Ayres said. When that
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area opened briefly this spring,
the state allowed a higher than
normal per-person take of the
clams, reasoning that it was
the first chance people had had
all year to dig for clams. Even
then, diggers only harvested
a fraction of what the state
allowed overall, and, in gen-
eral, harvest does not appear to
drastically impact razor clam
populations, Ayres said.
“It’s a big puzzle,” he said.
He has several theories,
but razor clam populations
can fluctuate from season
to season.
Oregon is in the middle of
its stock assessment, and it
isn’t known yet what fishery
mangers here will find. At low
tide on a beach near Fort Ste-
vens State Park’s South Jetty
in late July, clams were every-
where, revealing their pres-
ence by a variety of “shows”
referred to as dimples, dough-
nuts and keyholes — small
indents and holes in the wet
sand.
Though dangerous to
humans and marine mammals,
domoic acid doesn’t appear
to affect razor clams, said
Mitch Vance, a shellfish proj-
ect leader based out of New-
port with the Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife.
Other factors like food avail-
ability, how densely packed
clams are in an area and how
many young clams are pro-
duced each year are much
more important factors.
“All these things come into
play when you’re looking at a
single population in a single
area,” Vance said.
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Oregon clams were below the
allowed threshold of 20 parts
per million. A second rounds
of tests is due by the end of
the week. If that round comes
back clean as well there could
be a few central coast open-
ings for diggers, Vince said.
Clatsop County’s beaches, tra-
ditionally the most productive
beaches for razor clams, would
remain closed, as they always
are from July 15 to September
30, to protect juvenile clams.
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