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Homeowners consider suing city for property damage
May be cheaper to
just pay for damage
themselves, though
If their homeowners insurance
can cover at least some of the dam-
age, it may actually be cheaper for
the Hadleys to just pay for the re-
maining repairs themselves than to
take the city to court.
Right now, “we couldn’t afford to
get the money together to make our
case,” Hadley said.
making it prohibitively expensive
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Kim Laramy, communications
consultant for CIS, said the investi-
gation is ongoing, so the company
would not comment on the Hadleys’
case.
washed out, and the yard is a grav-
elly ruin.
The Hadleys hired a building
contractor and a landscape con-
tractor to estimate the cost of the
physical damage alone. Their
By Erick Bengel
combined estimate of $12,000
Cannon Beach Gazette
doesn’t include Douglas Hadley’s
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A couple who owns a home in
The trouble began when a out from their home in Charlevoix,
north Cannon Beach may sue the Prohibitively expensive
pipe that runs uphill from the Ash Mich., and rent a car in Oregon —
When a city’s insurance compa- Street pump station to the north nor does it include the thousands
city after a burst water line caused
approximately $12,000 worth of ny denies a claim, “that can leave reservoir suddenly broke on the lost because the couple cannot rent
exterior damage to their residence a property owner in a lurch,” said evening of Jan. 7. Within 10 min- out the house.
in January, and the city’s insurance Christian Zupancic, the Hadleys’ utes, the reservoir’s 30,000 gal-
Though the Hadleys’ home-
company, Salem-based Citycounty Seaside attorney. CIS insures many lons of water emptied onto Ash, owners insurance may cover about
Insurance Services, declined to cov- cities and counties in Oregon, and Seventh and Larch streets, ac- $6,000 worth of structural damage,
if the company declines coverage, cording to Public Works Director like the compromised posts, that
er it.
But Douglas and Karen Had- “usually these folks who have prop- Dan Grassick. At least 100 homes “still leaves a lot of other damage”
ley — whose West Seventh Street HUW\ GDPDJH WKH\ KDYH WR ¿JXUH LW were without water service until the couple would have to pay out
SURSHUW\ZDVÀRRGHGZLWKZDWHUDQG out on their own as to how to cover around 2 a.m. Jan. 8, when the of pocket, said Douglas Hadley.
debris when a city-owned PVC pipe the damage.”
public works crew had replaced “We don’t have the cash for that.
ruptured in January — have a tough
Though Zupancic said he does that section of pipe.
We don’t have cash sitting around
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not know why CIS denied the Had-
The Hadleys’ house didn’t suf- for that purpose.”
Filing a tort claim against the leys’ claim, he said that, in general, fer interior damage, but the deluge
The Hadleys may return to
city of Cannon Beach will require insurance companies will determine WKDW ÀRZHG XQGHU DQG DURXQG LW Cannon Beach in April to clean up
them to spend thousands of dollars that their client did not cause active mangled a fence, damaged a brick their yard. For now, they are still
on soils experts, hydrologists, indus- harm or behave negligently and, walkway, undermined a retaining hoping that either CIS or the city
trial engineers and other well-paid therefore, is not liable for damages.
wall, broke some skirting and sep- has a change of heart so the ma-
professionals to assess the quality of
For people like the Hadleys to arated four support posts from the jor repairs to the property can get
the broken pipe and the conditions prove the city is at fault, “there’s ÀRRUMRLVWV7KHKRXVHKDVVWDUWHG underway.
around it, Douglas Hadley said.
usually a lot of experts involved,” to sag and settle. The garden was
“We have to get it done so we
can get it back onto the rental mar-
ket,” Douglas Hadley said.
‘Very disappointing’
Both he and Zupancic said that
Cannon Beach’s city staff has
been great to work with.
Zupancic, in particular, said
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ty of the situation, I really am
grateful to the city of Cannon
Beach, and to CIS, for talking
to me and for trying to work it
out with me. They’ve been, by
and large, cooperative, given the
constraints that they’re operat-
ing under.”
Though City Attorney Tam-
my Herdener has said that CIS
may not want to involve the city,
Douglas Hadley wishes the city
could openly communicate with
him about the incident and its af-
termath.
“It just seems so odd to me.
I mean, come on, if something
fails in my neighbor’s yard, and
my house receives damage, it
seems to me the neighbor fixes
it, period. I don’t see why the
city doesn’t think that way,” he
said. “It’s very disappointing.”
Nehalem mayor dies of stroke in her home
she was everything a mayor
should be and more,” Ne-
halem City Manager Dale
Shafer said. “She’s going to
be irreplaceable.”
Kalkhoven served as the
city’s mayor for 10 years
and served on the Nehalem
City Council for 10 years
before that. In August, the
state of Oregon honored
her with the Mayor’s Lead-
ership Award, for which
Shafer nominated her.
Kalkhoven’s civic roles
and accomplishments are
extensive.
She was the immediate
past president of the Ore-
gon Mayor’s Association
Shirley
Kalkhoven an
‘irreplaceable’
public servant
Nehalem Mayor and
longtime public servant
Shirley Kalkhoven, 87,
has died. She was found
unresponsive in her home
March 16 and was rushed
to Providence Seaside Hos-
pital, where doctors deter-
mined she had suffered a
stroke, according to local
news reports.
“I have served several
mayors in my 25 years, and
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Betty Smith
and a past president of the
League of Oregon Cities.
She was a member of the
Northwest Regional Solu-
tions Advisory Council
and Chairwoman of the
Tillamook County Futures
Council.
In addition, she had
been the chairwoman of
the Northwest Area Com-
mission on Transportation
since 2007, chairwoman
of the League of Oregon
Cities Water Wastewater
Policy Committee, a mem-
ber of the League of Ore-
gon Cities Transportation
Committee and a member
of the Board of Col-Pac
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“She was a tiger,”
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