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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2018
Port: Agency sees potential for
development at East Mooring
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Built by feds
Local groups appealed to
the federal government after
World War II for help building
a boat basin to relieve conges-
tion and add moorage for the
fishing fleet.
“It was estimated that some
3,000 craft would benefit ini-
tially from the above-requested
improvement, which would
provide berthing space for
1,000 at one time,” Col. Ralph
Tudor, a district engineer with
the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers, wrote in a 1946 recom-
mendation for the project.
The basin, surrounded
by rock breakwater and two
wing jetties, was constructed
in the late 1940s. The proj-
ect included a 945-foot cause-
way that runs above the basin
to the breakwater, with walk-
ways down to the docks where
boats moor.
“All facilities within the
basin would be operated and
maintained by the Port of
Astoria without profit and
open to all on equal terms,”
Tudor wrote.
Ownership was under a
joint partnership that included
the city and Port. In 1968, the
Astoria City Council vacated
its right of ways in the basin at
the request of the Port.
“The Port wanted dispen-
sation to do things out there,”
Astoria City Manager Brett
Estes said.
The Port began lobbying
Congress in the late 1980s to
repair the deteriorating break-
water surrounding the basin,
said Bill Cook, the Port’s for-
mer deputy director. Congress
spent more than $20 million
in the early 2000s rehabil-
itating the breakwater. The
rehab stopped at the transition
between the breakwater and
the causeway, which the Port
has struggled to maintain.
In 2009, state bridge inspec-
tors found the causeway in
serious condition and ordered
it closed to vehicle traffic. The
Port made about $150,000 in
repairs and opened the road-
way up temporarily. But sev-
eral years ago, the causeway
Neal Maine
A red-winged blackbird protects its territory from an elk in Clatsop County wetlands.
Birds: Could help mark Earth Day
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“Red-winged blackbirds
have been in that habitat for-
ever. It seemed to fit the char-
acter of Cannon Beach,” said
Neal Maine, a wildlife pho-
tographer who serves on the
12 Days of Earth Day com-
mittee. “They are a part of
the downtown, which is kind
of rare to have a bird colony
right in the central part of the
community.”
The committee, which
organizes a variety of envi-
ronmental activities through-
out April in honor of Earth
Day, decided it wanted to
propose the idea to the city
as a formal way to honor
the 100th anniversary of the
Migratory Bird Treaty Act,
a landmark federal law that
protects dozens of species of
birds. Adopting the bird offi-
cially would take a vote from
the City Council. Dozens
of cities have adopted simi-
lar designations around the
country.
While negotiating which
bird should be proposed for
the title, the tufted puffin was
considered. Cannon Beach is
the home of the largest tufted
puffin colony on the Ore-
gon Coast, with several fes-
tivals and fundraisers held in
their honor. Between that and
the wide array of puffin par-
aphernalia available down-
town, the black, white and
orange bird has become the
town’s unofficial icon.
But there are many rea-
sons the red-winged black-
bird has an edge. Puffins are
seasonal, nesting at Haystack
Rock for only a few months
of the year, and are not very
accessible unless “you are
strategic about seeing them,”
Maine said.
Red-winged blackbirds
are what people in the com-
munity see every day, and
serve as a better representative
of the area’s ecology, Maine
said. Designating these birds
would also be historically sig-
nificant, as many of them live
on the Little Pompey Wet-
land — a marsh named after
the son of Sacagawea from
the Lewis and Clark Expedi-
tion by Cannon Beach Ele-
mentary School fifth-graders
more than 20 years ago.
“It’s the idea that every
bird counts, even common
ones like red-winged black-
birds,” Maine said. “We
have a tendency to go for
the rare and unusual. This is
more about celebrating the
‘common.’”
Haystack Rock Awareness
Program Director Melissa
Keyser also serves on the
committee and said while her
program is naturally partial to
tufted puffins, she embraces
the red-winged blackbird as
an official bird.
“It’s the perfect bird to
highlight because it is often
overshadowed by the puf-
fin,” Keyser said. “While the
puffins are incredibly special
and important, we also want
to give credit to another spe-
cies. When you are really
immersed in the environment
here the bird that you see is
the red-winged blackbird. We
could have gone with the puf-
fin, but the blackbird was a
little more indicative to this
place.”
Puffin or otherwise, the
larger message is to bring to
light the importance of pro-
tecting bird habitat. Post-
ers of the bird with the cap-
tion “They are all canaries”
are being circulated around
town to raise awareness. The
phrase plays off the old adage
“a canary in a coal mine,” ref-
erencing a time when canar-
ies were used as early detec-
tors for carbon monoxide in
mining tunnels.
“They are our measur-
ing stick to the quality of our
environment,” Maine said.
“When the birds start dying,
that’s when you know you’ve
got a problem.”
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The section of the mooring basin occupied by sea lions is
off limits to the public for safety reasons.
closed again to vehicles.
Bruce Johnson, the state
bridge engineer, said the Port
still has more than 30 struc-
tural pieces above and below
water needing repair before
the causeway could reopen to
traffic. The state has also pro-
vided the Port with an estimate
of $4 million to replace the
entire bridge, although John-
son cautioned that the actual
price could be two to four
times more.
“There’s no way to know
unless you do the actual design
and engineering,” he said.
About a year ago, the state
told the Port the entire cause-
way could be shut down in the
next two years to all traffic —
vehicle and pedestrian — if it
isn’t fixed, Knight said.
“We’re going to have to
wrestle as an organization,”
Knight said of the heavy
investment needed at the
basin. “Is this something we’re
going to tackle? Is it some-
thing we’re going to sit on, or
is this something (for which)
we need to engage a lot more
people?”
Planning for the future
The Port also owns sev-
eral acres around the basin on
either side of 36th Street. But
any plans the Port has would
have to pass muster with the
city, which adopted build-
ing and height restrictions in
the Civic Greenway portion
of the Riverfront Vision Plan
between 16th to 39th streets.
The Port can get exceptions
if the agency presents a mas-
ter plan that is approved by the
Astoria City Council.
Kevin Cronin, a former
Astoria community develop-
ment director contracted by
the Port to search and apply for
grants, said he is seeking one
this summer for a master plan
at the East Mooring Basin.
Port Commissioner Bill
Hunsinger, who is also a com-
mercial fisherman, said the
Port should go to Washington,
D.C., to seek more federal sup-
port for fixing the basin.
“If we had maintained that
(marina), our fishing industry
would probably have been out
there,” he said, adding the Port
should get the fishing industry
behind any pitch.
Commissioner Dirk Rohne
said the Port should look into a
public-private partnership.
The Port is creating a stra-
tegic plan to cover all of its
properties. That plan should
include language about the
need to explore such options
to improve the ailing basin,
Knight said.
“Once it’s fixed, it’s a heck
of an opportunity,” he said. “It
was designed to have … like
1,500 slips for boats. That was
the original intent. So it cer-
tainly could be a moneymaker.
It certainly could be a money
generator.”
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