T he C olumbia P ress
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April 20, 2018
Projects: Improvements coming to a street, park or marina near you
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licensing, technology imple-
mentation and online public
access to look up books and
reserve them ($20,178).
“This is one of the promises
we made to the voters” when
they approved the library
levy in September, City Man-
ager Linda Engbretson said.
“This is about all we need,”
site manager Nettie-Lee Ca-
log said. “We’ve been in the
dark ages for so long. This is
about all the technology I can
handle.”
s treet improvements
•Southwest Fourth Street
from Main Avenue to Robin-
son Community Park would
get sidewalks, plus power
lines would go underground,
a new water line would be in-
stalled and the road repaved
($836,000).
•Anchor Avenue south of
Harbor would get a new wa-
ter line and minor street pav-
ing ($100,000).
•Bring the sewer system
to an unserved area that
includes North Main Ave-
nue and Northwest Seventh
Place and rebuild the road
($867,000).
•Widen and improve the in-
tersection of South Main Av-
enue at Ninth Street, where
buses and other large vehi-
cles headed to Warrenton
Grade School have difficulty
passing ($867,000).
p arks
• Replace tennis court fenc-
ing fabric ($25,000).
• Replace Carruthers Park
viewing dock. The old struc-
ture would be removed and
replaced with a picnic table or
bench and interpretive signs
($7,000).
•Improve Carruthers Dog
Park drainage ($30,000).
“We’ve been having some
issues with mud,” said Kyle
Sharpsteen, Public Works
operations manager. “We put
bark out there and it seems to
be doing pretty well.”
But it’s an ongoing main-
tenance issue that requires
installation of catch basins,
base rock, landscape fabric
and pea gravel.
•Install water service to Fort
Stevens Parade Grounds. A
water line would be extended
to the expansive grassy park
between the officers’ houses
at the former military com-
pound. ($5,000).
e quipment
•Two 2018 patrol vehicles
for the police department
to replace aging vehicles
($110,000).
•A 2018 tanker tender for
the fire department, which
will replace a 1978 water ten-
der that can no longer be re-
paired ($375,000, of which
95 percent is funded by a
grant).
“We may end up buy-
ing in this fiscal year. We
got a FEMA grant for
$350,000 and our portion
is $17,000,” Fire Chief Tim
Demers said.
• Other equipment pur-
chases include a side-loading
garbage truck and a fork-
lift for the water treatment
plant.
m arinas
• Bank stabilization be-
tween a dock and the old fuel
dock at Hammond Marina
($75,000).
• Dredging at Hammond
Marina ($700,000).
p uBLiC works
• Remodel of the public
works office, a fuel depot spill
control area and an automat-
ic gate out front ($35,000).