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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2018
Methane: The Nautilus
will start its journey next
week in San Francisco
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The Astoria budget includes money for a new police officer.
Budget: Chief Spalding says his biggest
priority is to fully staff the patrol force
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Still, the city was able to
increase its lodging tax rate
at the beginning of the year
and funnel some of the extra
money to the Parks and Rec-
reation Department in an
effort to stabilize the depart-
ment’s funding. Meanwhile,
marijuana tax revenue will
fund the new police officer
position — a use of the money
city councilors had pushed for
in past discussions.
But even with this addi-
tional money, city depart-
ments will operate on tight
budgets, Estes said at bud-
get committee meetings. The
parks department will need to
be especially cautious. This
year is the first attempt to
capture the real costs of run-
ning the department without
substantial transfers from the
city’s general fund to fill in the
gaps.
Loran Mathews, the chair-
man of the budget commit-
tee, asked during budget hear-
ings in April if the increase in
police staff meant an officer
would be assigned to Clatsop
County’s drug task force, an
interagency team that inves-
tigates drug activity in the
county.
Police Chief Geoff Spal-
ding said that while the task
force does need assistance and
there are major drug problems
in the county, his biggest pri-
ority is to fully staff the depart-
ment’s patrol force. There is
not much time for proactive
enforcement, he said. But he
does hope to build the depart-
ment back up to a place where
it can be involved in teams
like the drug task force, or add
back a school resource officer.
In addition to a new offi-
cer, the police department
will combine two part-time
positions to create a full-time
records specialist position this
fiscal year.
The budget also contains
3 percent increases in sewer
and water rates. The city esti-
mates this will add approxi-
mately $4.20 each month to
a residential bill based on the
use of 7,500 gallons of water.
The City Council is expected
to vote on the increases later
this month.
There will be no increase
to the combined sewer over-
flow surcharge, which stands
at 97 percent of the basic
charge and consumption
charge water users pay. The
city is in the middle of com-
pleting sewer improvements
to meet federal Clean Water
Act requirements and reduce
the flow of wastewater into
the Columbia River after
heavy rains. The surcharge
goes to help pay for the proj-
ect and has increased slowly
over the years.
But only around 100 seep
sites had been identified
until a couple of years ago,
when scientists began sur-
veying with new multibeam
sonar technology aboard the
research vessel Nautilus,
owned and operated by the
Ocean Exploration Trust.
The new sonar allows
researchers to rapidly locate
and map the methane seeps.
Researchers have mapped
nearly 40 percent of the
ocean floor along the Cas-
cadia Subduction Zone with
the Nautilus’ sonar, Merle
said, and hope to cover
more on this expedition. An
onboard remotely operated
submersible — Hercules —
is deployed to collect sam-
ples of gas, methane hydrate,
water, fauna and rocks near
the seeps, which often sup-
port a diverse array of life.
In their survey, research-
ers found that much of the
methane below an ocean
depth of 1,600 feet was
solidified hydrates, while
higher up it usually appears
as a gas in bubble streams.
One theory is that warming
seas turn the hydrates into
carbon dioxide gases and
contribute to ocean acidifica-
tion, Merle said.
Leading the upcom-
ing expedition is Tamara
Baumberger, a researcher
with the Cooperative Insti-
tute for Marine Resources
Studies operated by Oregon
State and NOAA at the Hat-
field Marine Science Center.
On the previous expedition,
Baumberger sampled some
of the bubbles and found
chemical signatures pointing
to the source of the methane.
“When methane is in sea-
water, it often is oxidized into
carbon dioxide by micro-
bial activity, which can keep
much of it from reaching the
atmosphere,” Baumberger
said in a news release about
the previous expedition.
“The downside, of course,
is that the newly formed car-
bon dioxide is also a prob-
lem and it can both reach
the atmosphere and increase
ocean acidification.”
Methane released into
shallow water reaches the
atmosphere quicker because
bacteria in the water has
less time to oxidize the gas,
Baumberger said. Part of the
new expedition is trying to
map and study more shal-
low-water methane seeps.
Whether methane could
be economically extracted
from the ocean floor remains
a question. Several coun-
tries have explored mining
the hydrates as an alterna-
tive energy source. But the
deposits are widely distrib-
uted, said Robert Embley, an
Oregon State geophysicist
and lead scientist on the pre-
vious expedition.
“One concern is what
would happen during a major
Cascadia Subduction Zone
earthquake,” Embley said
in a release. “It would add
more permeability to the sea
floor, add more pathways for
the methane to escape, and
increase the potential for its
release to the atmosphere.”
The Nautilus leaves
San Francisco next week
and will survey all along
the Cascadia Subduction
Zone through the end of the
month, including just south
of the Astoria canyon. Video
of the dives by Hercules will
be made available at nauti-
luslive.org
Seaside: The ballroom, meeting rooms will be expanded
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for upgrades. Overall, the new
project adds about 10,000
square feet to the existing
facility, for a total of 55,000
square feet, an increase of
nearly 19 percent.
The ballroom and meet-
ing rooms will be expanded;
restrooms and staircases relo-
cated. Carpeting and lighting
will be replaced throughout.
A two-story addition on the
east side of the building will
overlook Broadway and the
Necanicum River.
Under Monday’s cloud-
less sky, members of the City
Council and the key play-
ers of the design and con-
struction team — including
Keely O’Brien of O’Brien
and Co. Construction in Can-
non Beach, project man-
ager Jason Stegner of Klosh
Group LLC and Michael
Schmidt of Portland’s Holst
Architecture — marked
the official launch of the
15-month project.
A steady thump-thump
accompanied the ceremony,
as crews were already at
work ripping out concrete
on the east side of the build-
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Work is underway in Seaside.
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ing. Barber, city councilors
and building officials leaned
into their shovels as cam-
eras shutters clicked and dirt
flew.
“The city fathers showed
great wisdom in coming up
with this idea 40 years ago,”
Barber said. “It has become
the engine that has driven the
economy through the winter
months and year-round.”
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