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Echo development would bring hotel, amphitheater, RV park
Website provides
resources for
homecare workforce
By JADE MCDOWELL
Staff Writer
A project being cooked up by
Kent Madison could double the
city of Echo’s tax base and solve its
sewer problems in one fell swoop.
That’s what Madison told
a standing-room only crowd
at Echo’s city council meeting
Thursday afternoon. He and his
wife Laura are looking to create
a development along Thielsen
Road between Echo and the Inter-
state 84 interchange near Stanfield
that would include an RV park,
10,000-person amphitheater, ho-
tel, restaurant, laundromat, light
industrial project and green space.
It would be quite the growth
spurt for Echo, population 704.
“It’s going to be different,”
Madison said. “I can’t tell you
Echo is going to be the same. You
may have to wait in line at the
H&P Cafe.”
Since the development at full
build-out would likely double
Echo’s water and sewer needs,
overwhelming its current system,
Madison said he would be willing
to pay to build a new system and
hand it over to the city after it was
complete.
Echo has been struggling for
about 12 years to get a wastewa-
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“If the public of Echo is adamantly opposed
to it, we have better things to do. “
- Kent Madison
ter treatment project going after
the Department of Environmental
Quality put the city on notice that
the recycled water it has been dis-
charging into the Umatilla River
does not meet standards for bio-
logical oxygen demand. The city is
on its sixth extension of an interim
agreement with the agency after
running into roadblocks on every-
thing from shifting regulations to a
lack of viable funding sources.
The city notified Echo resident
Michael Yunker in December that
if he did not voluntarily sell 10
acres of his 65-acre ranch north of
Echo, the city could use eminent
domain to force the sale so that it
could build a pond and irrigation
field to take in the water currently
being released into the Umatilla
River. Yunker has voiced strong
opposition to selling.
Madison said he would be
willing to take that water and pro-
cess it which, in conjunction with
a well he would drill, could be
used to irrigate the RV park and
surrounding green space.
“We would do the legwork,
we would drill the well, create
the new sewer structure, and then
we would hand it over to the city.
They would all become city as-
sets,” he said.
The city would have to take on
the responsibility of maintenance,
he said, but would also double its
sewer and water revenue once the
project was finished.
The Madisons do not currently
own the 132-acre dryland wheat
parcel in question, but it is for
sale. They said if Echo supports
their vision, they are willing to
buy the whole tract, develop
the RV park and start recruiting
a hotel and other companies to
develop the rest. But the Madi-
sons won’t buy the property until
they’re sure the project, including
sewer and water improvements,
will work financially and have the
support of the city.
“If the public of Echo is ad-
amantly opposed to it, we have
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better things to do,” Madison said.
“We don’t want to fight you all the
way.”
He said the project would need
annexed into the city. He has also
been discussing with the Oregon
Department of Transportation the
need to turn Thielsen Road into a
three-lane highway with a frontage
road to handle the increased traffic.
People who came to hear Mad-
ison’s presentation had concerns
and questions about the develop-
ment’s impact on Echo’s quality
of life and on property values.
Craig Cooley, a resident of
nearby Echo Heights, said he and
his wife had concerns about noise
from the amphitheater and about
the new well’s impact on their
own water supply. Others echoed
that concern and added their own
worries about parking, traffic and
that a light industrial project could
bring nuisances along with it.
“How much collateral damage
will there be?” Cooley asked.
Madison said there could be
noise ordinances put into place to
make sure sound from the amphi-
theater wasn’t overly burdensome
on neighbors. He said the well, at
1,500 feet, would be deep enough
that it “theoretically wouldn’t be
touching your aquifer.”
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