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Water: Each asset was
measured based on potential
losses to the community
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After legislation to
keep the nation’s drinking
water safe, the government
addressed a wide range
of security concerns with
the U.S. Bioterrorism Pre-
paredness Act. Each city of
more than 3,300 people is
required to complete a risk
and resilience assessment
focused on the risks of its
water system vulnerabili-
ties and send a copy to the
Environmental Protection
Agency.
Murraysmith
vis-
ited Seaside water sys-
tem assets with city staff
in April and delivered their
report in late June.
The assessment focuses
on malevolent acts, natural
hazards, monitoring prac-
tices, infrastructure and
maintenance of the system,
which in Seaside includes
the water intake source,
treatment plant, the city’s
four reservoirs and 10
pump stations.
Each asset was mea-
sured based on potential
losses to the community,
vulnerability and threat
likelihood, based on the
level of losses in a range
to 125. A rating of 75 or
greater was determined to
be a priority asset-threat
pair to be analyzed fur-
ther in the risk assessment
process.
For vulnerability to
earthquakes, the water
treatment plant, Peterson
Reservoir and piping all
rated at a risk level above
75. The water treatment
plan was also rated at 75
in the event of wildfi re.
Chemical damage could
threaten the intake area,
according to the report,
which rated the risk at 75.
The rated risk to the water
system was 75 for the risk
of loss of key employees.
Potential countermea-
sures were selected to
address each asset-threat.
The report calls for expen-
ditures to update physi-
cal security, like alarms
and locks, employee train-
ing and documentation
of standard procedures of
operations.
“This is a living doc-
ument,” McDowell said.
“We continue to work on
this.”
The next report update
is anticipated at the end of
December.
The City Council unan-
imously approved the plan.
City purchases new
drain cleaning truck
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
Two years of research
has brought a suitable
replacement for the city’s
vactor truck, Public Works
Director Dale McDowell
said at a July City Council
meeting. The 2012 Envi-
ro-Clean vactor truck comes
with 5,300 hours on it, at a
total cost of $203,000. The
city’s truck, dating to 1999,
has 49,000 hours on it.
The vactor truck is used
by all city departments from
cleaning catch basins, exca-
vation of broken waterlines
and cleaning sewer mains,
McDowell said in ask-
ing the City Council for a
capital outlay of $150,000
for the purchase. Using
the vactor truck elimi-
nates the need for opening
large areas in the street, and
repairs are completed much
faster with minimal damage
to the roadways.
Public
Works
staff
searched for a replace-
ment over two years before
fi nding the replacement.
“Our research over the
last two years has fi nally
found a suitable replace-
ment, a truck that is capable
of being used in all three
departments and at a rea-
sonable cost,” McDowell
said.
The city-owned truck
will be sold, with an esti-
mated value of $30,000 to
$60,000.
The City Council unani-
mously approved the truck
replacement.
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Homeless: ‘The city cannot solve this problem’
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Over 1,000 people are
homeless in Clatsop County,
said Viviana Matthews, the
executive director of Clat-
sop Community Action.
About 35% to 40%
of homeless services in
the county are focused in
Seaside.
The nonprofi t agency
matches people to social ser-
vices agencies and volunteer
groups. The liaisons help
the homeless fi ll out gov-
ernment forms and medi-
cal documents and provide
vouchers to those in need.
Even when housing
is found, the work often
continues.
“Working
with
the
unsheltered population, we
do measure if they go into
housing and retain hous-
ing after six months,” Mat-
thews said. “The people that
do fi nd housing, we try to
support them as much as we
can. So they stay housed,
with any kind of services
that we might be able to pro-
vide. Any we don’t provide,
we look someplace else. But
our goal is to, when some-
body goes into housing, to
stay in housing.”
Seaside’s push to address
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homelessness grew amid
reports of people living in
cars, the streets and in the
woods. The topic was among
the top identifi ed issues at a
City Council goal-setting
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City Councilor Tita Mon-
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better understanding of how
homelessness aff ects city
management and staff .
“What are they having to
do?” Montero asked. “What
are they having to face?”
The think tank — a
smaller group designed to
consider strategies — will
consist of Matthews, Mon-
tero, Barber and McDowell.
Homeless advocates Rick
Bowers and Nelle Mof-
fett and Monica Steele, the
assistant county manager,
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Ariel Nelson, a lobby-
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Montero said.
“We’re going to make
recommendations for which
strategies we think the City
Council should consider for
implementation,” Montero
said. “We hope to have that
to the City Council by the
end of October.”
A Facebook page will
aim to bring diverse voices
together to meet the need.
“This was not an eff ort
to solve the homeless prob-
lem,” Barber said. “It is an
eff ort to gain greater under-
standing of the homeless
issue in our community, and
to help us to begin to work
together. The city cannot
solve this problem. It takes
a village and takes all of us
working together to really
begin to address the issue
in a way that progressively
helps.
“But that’s really what
this is all about.”
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Volleyball: 185 courts set
up on the beach featured
over a thousand teams
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Allison and Brenna Meehan
in the women’s AA champi-
onship match.
Jacobson and Weber, from
the Seattle area, led 14-12
in the second set before the
Meehans rallied to tie it at
14-14.
The match saw ties at 15,
16, 17 and 18, before Jacob-
son and Weber caught a wave
of momentum and scored the
fi nal three points for a 21-18
win.
Weber will be a senior
with the University of Wash-
ington beach volleyball
team. Jacobson played colle-
giately at Central Washington
University.
In the men’s AA north
division, the team of David
Aspidov and Vitaly Aspidov
swept Team Enriques, 21-17,
21-19.
In the south division, No.
1 seed Colin Kim and Mar-
shall Rooney lost the fi rst set
of the fi nals, but rallied to win
in three sets over No. 10 seed
Mark Bejan and Vitaly Marti-
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arrive at the fi nish line at
the beach. Music begins
at 1:45 p.m. Trophy pre-
sentations begin at 5 p.m.
At 6:45 p.m., Hit Machine
performs onstage, and at
8:30 p.m., a laser light show
begins.
Brian Owen, the CEO
of the Seaside Chamber of
Commerce, said the event is
running full steam ahead.
There are fewer teams
this year because of inter-
national travel. Participants
will likely start arriving into
Seaside a little bit earlier
and be a bit more staggered,
Owen said.
“We’ll have a full beer
garden,” he said. “Down
at the event space, the run-
ner’s party will be the same
footprint but won’t have as
many VIP sections in it. It’s
built for social distancing, so
that you can be in a nice out-
door area with with space.”
The fi rst Hood to Coast
Relay, in 1982, ran from
Mount Hood to Pacifi c City
with eight teams participat-
ing. The race came to Sea-
side in 1989, with 750 teams
participating.
In 2018, Seaside and
Hood to Coast signed a
fi ve-year contract, deliver-
ing $25,000 to the city in the
fi rst year, and increasing 5%
a year through 2022, when
Hood to Coast will pay the
city more than $30,000.
In the past, residents and
the City Council had asked
organizers to provide an
active toll-free number for
residents to report concerns
before and during Hood
to Coast weekend. Resi-
dents can call 844-428-8327
during the week of the race.
For an emergency, people
are urged to call 911.
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