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Astoriaâs 3,700-acre Bear Creek watershed is a primary source of drinking water and revenue from both logging and sequestering carbon. But it needs a lot of maintenance.
A 70-acre swath of young forest over the hill from the Bear Creek Reservoir needs to be thinned to promote a healthy, diverse forest. A failing culvert on Cedar Creek just upstream of the reservoir needs to be removed and replaced with a bridge to return the stream to its natural state.
Astoria is investing in forest stewardship projects in areas like the Bear Creek watershed. Hailey Hoffman/The Astorian
The city is deciding how to invest $837,500 it netted from a November sale of carbon sequestration credits into forest stewardship and maintenance projects over the coming years, while buffering capital improvement funds against poor logging years.
The state has ordered developer Floyd Holcom, the owner of Pier 39, to restore wetlands he improperly filled near the Cannery Loft Condominiums.
Holcom began clearing a plot of land he owns between the condominiums and a branch of the Astoria Riverwalk curving around Alderbrook Slough. He built a gravel connector path from a cul-de-sac at the end of Abbey Lane to the trail.
Nathan Crater, the city engineer, said the path blocked stormwater drainage from adjacent warehouses to the south of Holcomâs property to wetlands adjoining the slough. During heavy rains Monday, water pooled on either side of the path.