PENDLETON — Helicopters buzzed overhead as Pendleton City Manager Robb Corbett helped the sandbagging effort at Riverview Mobile Home Estates on Feb. 6, 2020.
ECHO â The flood of February 2020 changed the course of the Umatilla River around Echo, but the river is not done moving.
The shifting landscape becomes obvious when looking out over fields owned by Bink Ramos, on the south side of the bridge where Main Street becomes Oregon Trail Road. There, freshly sheared-off banks in a large U-shape mark where chunks of what used to be an agricultural field have collapsed into the river and washed away.
Ramos estimates he has lost about 5 acres of property along the river in total, which he said would have been valued at between $6,000 and $8,000 per acre.