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North Jetty: Army Corps teams review work Bridge: ‘We’re
on track, and we’re
making progress’
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“Everybody thinks you’re
just piling up rocks,” said
Aaron Anderson, a site super-
intendent for J.E. McAmis.
“No, no, no — you’re putting a
puzzle together. It’s very delib-
erate. It’s very specific.”
The rocks for the jetty reha-
bilitation come from four dif-
ferent quarries. Much of it is
barged south along the Pacific
Coast from two quarries in
northern Washington to Tansy
Point. More rock is trucked in
from Central Oregon Basalt
Products near Bend, along
with the Drake Quarry leased
by Big River near Youngs
River Falls.
Each jetty stone comes to
the construction site marked
with a weight and the load it
came in on. They’re sorted
into varying densities between
165 to 180 pounds per cubic
feet. The lighter stones are
used nearer to shore, while the
heavier product goes farther
out into the bashing waves.
Excavator operators on the
jetty and a crane operator near
the end are equipped with a
3D model of what the finished
jetty should look like. They
call out for stones, brought by
a forklift, before fitting them
snugly into the rubble pile with
the help of a nearby spotter.
The stones all need to be
stacked in a specific man-
ner and orientation, or they
won’t last through a win-
ter storm, Anderson said. The
Army Corps regularly sends
out teams to review McAmis’
work.
Anderson, from Knappa,
said he first became interested
in such projects watching con-
struction contractor Kiewit
Corp. repair the South Jetty in
the 2000s. Kiewit received the
contract for an earlier Jetty A
rehabilitation.
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Photos by Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
J.E. McAmis has been trucking stones from Tansy Point near Warrenton, over the Asto-
ria Bridge and on to the North Jetty rehabilitation project near Ilwaco.
J.E. McAmis has been barging jetty stones to Tansy
Point in Hammond. From there, they are loaded on flat-
bed trucks and taken through Astoria to the North Jetty
rehabilitation near Ilwaco.
McAmis started the North
Jetty rehabilitation in Febru-
ary and will continue working
until winter storms hit, Ander-
son said. The company expects
to finish the project in Novem-
ber 2019, rebuilding about 250
feet at the tip that has eroded
over time.
McAmis will likely com-
pete against Kiewit and others
for the largest contract, a reha-
bilitation of the 6-mile South
Jetty near Fort Stevens State
Park estimated to cost nearly
$150 million and involve more
than 360,000 tons of stone.
The project is slated to start
next year and potentially last
through 2024.
Jerry Otto, a project man-
ager with the Army Corps,
said the agency will hold a
kickoff meeting with contrac-
tors in September to talk about
the South Jetty project. The
Corps hopes to award a bid for
the project in June.
The Corps has not asked a
contractor to source so much
rock since the last major reha-
bilitation of the South Jetty in
the 1960s.
“It’s going to be a tough
job for anyone who takes it on,
and we’re very cognizant of
that,” Otto said.
He plans on reaching out
soon to inform the public
about the project’s potential
impacts on popular areas such
as Fort Stevens State Park. A
requirement of the contract
will be keeping access open
to most of the visitor areas on
Clatsop Spit, he said, including
the South Jetty viewing plat-
form and vehicle access to a
popular fishing spot known as
Social Security Beach.
Goonies house: Situation ‘better than it was’
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In addition to asking city
police to enforce parking rules
in the neighborhood, Rhoads
also asked if the city could
increase the fine for violating
the rule from $25 to $100. But,
he emphasized, simply enforc-
ing existing parking restric-
tions “would be a great first
step.” He worries how parking
violations create hazards, trap
people in their homes and pre-
vent emergency vehicles from
reaching residents who might
need medical help.
Police Chief Geoff Spal-
ding, who was hired in Jan-
uary after serving as interim
chief last year, said he needs
to get up to speed on Goonies
house-related issues before he
can recommend a course of
action. As the police depart-
ment continues to bring more
officers on board, neighbor-
hood patrols and enforcement
of parking violations could
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again become priorities, he
said.
The police department has
received four parking com-
plaints so far this summer,
some that manifested into dis-
turbances. But police said,
overall, there appear to be
fewer complaints this year as
compared to previous years.
City councilors were sym-
pathetic to Rhoads’ complaint.
Mayor Arline LaMear sug-
gested implementing a park-
ing zone in the neighborhood
to further limit who can park
there.
If it feels like 2015 again,
when the owner of the Goonies
house begged the city to limit
fans’ access to the property, it’s
because Goonies fans never
say die. Out-of-town visitors
and adult fans of the 1985
movie routinely block drive-
ways and roads and wander
the street in droves to get a
glance at the house, a private
home on a dead-end road.
Such issues escalated in
2015 in the months after Asto-
ria celebrated the 30th anniver-
sary of the film’s release. The
owner shrouded the house in
blue tarp and the Astoria-War-
renton Area Chamber of Com-
merce began to discourage
visits to the neighborhood,
pointing people to more distant
viewing areas. The city posted
signs to prohibit Goonies park-
ing on 38th Street. Neighbors
had long been putting up signs
of their own.
On a webpage dedicated to
Goonies-related tourism, the
chamber now begs visitors to
“put yourselves in the neigh-
bors’ shoes” when it comes to
visiting the house.
“Aside from seeing more
bellies flashed while doing the
Truffle Shuffle in a day than
most people would see in a
lifetime, they are subjected to
a number of things that make
their life more difficult,” the
chamber writes, and goes on to
list issues that include parking
hassles, blocked roads, pedes-
trian safety concerns and gar-
bage tourists leave behind for
residents to pick up.
The situation in the neigh-
borhood is “better than it was,”
said Public Works Director
Jeff Harrington. But the house
remains a popular destination
for the people who uncover
the address, or who wander
the area knowing the house is
somewhere nearby.
Rhoads and his family have
been neighbors of the Goonies
house for over a year.
“While I was warned,
nobody can really, clearly
explain what to expect from
being that close to the Goonies
house and what it entails,”
Rhoads said.
In the words of City Coun-
cilor Zetty Nemlowill, there
is an ongoing trend of livabil-
ity in the neighborhood “being
compromised by, really, some
nasty tourists.”
“We’re on track, and we’re
making progress,” Moore said.
The city hopes to avoid
expensive repairs on the bridges
by beginning to replace the
structures this year. If work
can’t begin in the fall, the city
will need to go ahead and pay
for the repairs or risk having to
close the bridges.
The City Council also
released $66,632 for inspection
and design work on the tracks
and trestles that carry the Asto-
ria Riverfront Trolley along the
Astoria Riverwalk and across
the waterfront bridges. The
money comes out of the city’s
Promote Astoria fund, which
is intended for tourist-related
projects.
The city has already bud-
geted $350,000 to cover the
cost of inspection, design and
maintenance of the tracks and
trestles this fiscal year. Around
$250,000 will likely go to main-
tenance work on the structures.
In other business, the City
Council:
• Discussed providing urban
renewal money for renovation
work at the Liberty Theatre
that would improve the build-
ing’s stage and allow the the-
ater to host more elaborate pro-
ductions. A $1.3 million urban
renewal grant enabled the pur-
chase of the theater in 2000.
The theater provides a
venue for live music, but isn’t
able to host any productions
that require scenery or compli-
Grant: ‘I really think we should
meet the needs of the community’
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“There is no comparison
from what we have now to
what this would offer — day
and night difference,” she said.
Several board members
raised concerns about the atten-
tion having a medical clinic on
campus would bring.
“We have some very unsa-
vory people in this community,”
said Brian Meier, a board mem-
ber who voted against applying
for the grant. “The liability out-
weighs the benefit.”
The health center would be
better placed in a nearby Clat-
sop County Sheriff’s Office
substation or the Elsie-Vinema-
ple Rural Fire Protection Dis-
trict, Meier said.
Michael Stahly, a board
member who also voted “no,”
said he agreed with Meier and
was concerned over the state
mandates that could come with
a health center.
As of last year, there were
nearly 80 school-based health
centers in 25 Oregon counties.
During Hunsaker’s involve-
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cated lighting.
“As tourists visit from other
cities, they expect to see a level
of theater we can’t provide,”
said Jennifer Crockett, the the-
ater’s director.
The Liberty Theatre had
requested $45,000 in city arts
and cultural grant money, but
that would have left almost
nothing for other groups. Mayor
Arline LaMear said the city still
wished to support the theater,
however, and agreed to look
at other ways of providing the
money.
City Councilor Zetty Nem-
lowill suggested the city look
at giving the theater a mix of a
grant and a low- or zero-interest
loan, a solution that would help
the theater but also put money
back into the urban renewal dis-
trict. City leaders hope to build
up urban renewal funds to rede-
velop Heritage Square near City
Hall. The square includes the
Garden of Surging Waves as
well as an unsightly, caved-in
area where a Safeway grocery
store once stood.
City staff will investigate
options and return with a pro-
posal for the City Council to
consider.
• Approved an agreement
with the Lower Columbia Pres-
ervation Society for the long-
term care and maintenance of
the replica of the first U.S. Cus-
toms House west of the Rocky
Mountains and the surrounding
parkland. The Customs House
and park are located across from
Safeway, off Lief Erikson Drive.
ment with several health centers
in central Oregon, she never
heard of any troubles involving
the public, she said.
Board chairman Bryan
Swearingen and board members
Ginger Kaczenski and Michael
Wammack voted in favor of the
health center. Although she sup-
ported trying to get the grant,
Kaczenski said she wants more
information on how other health
centers manage tough situations
with the public. Board mem-
bers included a requirement that
they vote again on whether to
accept the county’s grant.
The grant application is due
next month, and the winners
chosen late this year. The hope
is that the grant can help start
the health center, and that the
services provided to the com-
munity over the summer and
other breaks will make it more
financially sustainable while
helping people regardless of
their ability to pay, McNickle
said.
“I really think we should
meet the needs of the commu-
nity,” he said.
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