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Survey on Dredging Needs of
Rural Ports and Waterways
Carrie Backman, M.S.Washington State University Extension
Wahkiakum County Director
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Survey on Dredging Needs of Rural Ports and
Waterways
• History of sedimentation and impacts on
ports
• Survey tool
• Survey results, common themes
• Impacts, response from decision makers
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• Life on the water big part
of culture, heritage,
economy
• Pop. 4000
Wahkiakum County:
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History of sedimentation
• Two port districts in
Wahkiakum County;
managing four boat ramps,
two parks and one marina
on Columbia River
• Significant sedimentation off
main shipping channel over
last 50 years
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Example, Skamokawa
1939, Skamokawa, Port 2 1973, Skamokawa, Port 2
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Skamokawa
1995, Skamokawa, Port 2 2015, Skamokawa, Port 2
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Dredge spoils sites
• Upland Disposal Sites
• Beach Nourishment Sites
Army Corps of Engineers, http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil
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Impacts on rural ports
• Permitting for dredging
costly and time intensive
• Limited staff and
revenues
• Boat ramps inaccessible
during medium to lower
tides
• Loss in moorage and
ramp feesElochoman Marina, Port 1Jim Nieland, Panoramio.com
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Countywide Needs Assessment Survey
• Funded and implemented by
Wahkiakum Marine Resources
Committee staff and volunteers
• Followed two community forums
previous year
• Focused on main tributaries to
Columbia: Skamokawa Creek,
Elochoman River, Grays River and
Deep River
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Needs Assessment Survey
• Distributed 1790
surveys via bulk
mailings, hard copies
• Mailed June 2013
• Press release to local
paper week prior
• 521 returned
surveys; 29.1%
response rate
Welcome Slough Boatworks
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Survey Design
• Ten questions
– 7 multiple choice
– 1 open ended
– 2 yes or no, if yes then open ended
– Front and back, one page
• Stamped return envelopes
• No follow up reminders or additional survey copies
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Question focus:
• Perception of need for
dredging
• Impacts on homes
• Impacts on businesses
• Willingness to help with
manpower or funding
• Suggestions or ideas
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Survey Results
• Perception of need:
– On a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the
highest, how would you rate the need for these
tributaries to be dredged?
• 65% rated 8-10 (highest need)
• 17% rated 5-7 (moderate need)
• 4% rated 2-4 (little need)
• 6% rated 0-1 (no need)
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Perception of need: economy
• Concerns rooted in
economic and safety
interests: marina and boat
ramps are economic
drivers
– “The Marina is important
to the economy of
downtown Cathlamet. It
really needs to be kept
up.”
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Perception of need: economy and public
safety
• “Access to the (Columbia)
River is an economic
necessity for this
community…access to the
marina, or safe access to and
through areas such as the
Cathlamet Channel create
economic and public safety
issues for the region.”
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Impacts to business
• Marina needs to stay
accessible to boat traffic
which brings people to
local businesses.
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Impacts to business
• Local business
commerce-Tourist
influx overall Columbia
ship traffic (Deep
Draft).
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Impacts to business
• Causes more frequent
valley flooding which
maroons us in our
home and keeps
customers from getting
to our business.Don Speranza, Inn at Crippen Creek
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Impacts to business
• I commercial crab & fish
the lower Columbia river
and due to the lack of
water on the north side of
the river, we are running
out of places to fish.Longview Daily News, tdn.com
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Impacts to home
• Increased siltation of East Birnie Slough
has limited my ability to access the river.
Water front property is losing value due to
the decreasing usability of the water ways
caused by shoaling and increased milfoil
weeds.
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Impacts to home
• Increased flooding in past
20 yrs. Weed seeds every
year. Lost one car and
damaged pickup. Floods
shop 1-4 inches. House
has been raised 4 feet.Photos.oregonlive.com
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Common themes
• River central to economy, and
sedimentation of ports/tributaries impacts
local commerce
– Sports and commercial fishing
– Boating
– Lodging
– Farms
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Common themes
• Increased flooding
over last 20 years
• Tidegate, culvert and
dike problems
• Increased bank
erosion
• Increased permitting
time, cost for repairs
Wahkiakum County Eagle, waheagle.com
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Common themes
• Residents seeing
backup into
surrounding valleys,
flooding homes, farms
Water.weather.gov
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Overall support
• Do you support the overall concept of dredging
these local tributaries to again establish working
waterways for marine commerce?
– No: 13%
– Yes: 88%
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Common concerns with dredging
• Impacts on salmon habitat
– “Dredging destroys salmon
habitat.”
• Cost
– “Our taxes are high
enough. We seniors cannot
afford to pay out anymore
county or city taxes!”
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Volunteer service
• Would you be willing to volunteer services or
expertise to these projects?
– 30% Yes
– 59% No
Wahkiakum County Eagle
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Offers of help
More than 80 offers of help
– Expertise: equipment operator, tug boat
captain, dredge operator, 30 years
dredging experience, grant writing, tree
planting, equipment repair, and general
labor, “my back…”
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Ideas for Solutions
• “Check out the Portland Yacht club's small
dredge-cost $15k plus repairs. Let's try to
interest a big port (Longview) to partner
with Port 1.”
• “Sharing the cost of dredge with Cowlitz
and or Pacific County.”
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Ideas for solutions
– “Contact local tug owners to see if they
would prop wash Port entries if State
approves and at what cost. If there is
support from them it may help convince
officials to approve.”
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Ideas for solutions
• Several partnership and
funding ideas
– Salmon recovery board
– Diking districts
– Army Corps of
Engineers
– Tug operators
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Steps forward
• Based on survey
response, MRC
partnered with DNR for
survey of river bottom
near Elochoman Marina,
moving forward permits
• Port District 1
purchasing small dredge
Longview Daily News
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Steps forward
• Port 2 developing new
boat ramp in Skamokawa,
using survey results for
funding.
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Steps forward
• MRC partnered with The
Nature Conservancy and
Conservation District on
habitat restoration and
new inlet structures on
lower Skamokawa Creek.
Estuarypartnership.org
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Summary
• Major impacts to economy
• Increased flooding to homes
• Willingness to help
• Major concerns are habitat and tax increases
• Ports and local agencies moving forward with
improvement to access, tidegates
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Thank you!
Carrie Backman
WSU Wahkiakum County Extension Director
360-795-3278
Wahkiakum.wsu.edu