Bend council votes to keep Mirror Pond
But they acknowledged that costs, regulations and talks with Pacific Power over the fate of the century old dam that created it will weigh into the final outcome."It's a complicated situation," Mayor Jim Clinton said. "We're sorry it's so Nike Store Nz complicated, but that's just the way it is."Before the council voted on the resolution, much like one that drew unanimous park board approval Tuesday night, they heard from several Bend residents.
Ron Boozell told the council the river should run wild and free.
"Mirror Pond represents another era I feel no obligation to carry it on," Boozell said. "It doesn't make sense economically, financially, or environmentally."He added many people he has spoken with say they don't want to pay to keep the pond."If you are going to start talking about money, or any other Cheap Tiffany Rings consideration of support at all for this you are going to find a groundswell of support of people that want their river back." Boozell said. 1 priority is that it needs to remain beautiful,"" Capell said. But he also wants a "sustainable" solution that doesn't land local agencies back in the same issue that sparked the years of roiling debate a need to dredge the silt piling up in the pond.
Last month, PacifiCorp, owner of the Newport Avenue dam, inspected a leak that arose this fall and the overall condition of the wooden dam, and announced that it would not be cost effective to continue generating power there.
Capell says negotiations over the dam have begun. He says PacifiCorp would like to sell the dam to whoever wants it, or decommission Ray Ban Wayfarer 2140.html it.
Capell noted that the best estimate so far is that, to tear the dam down and repair the area could cost the company close to $11 million. At the other extreme, he said, the city wants the dam fixed Lacoste Uk then handed over to whomever (not the city, though, he said some new overseer perhaps, or the park board.
He also said any notions that the city was going to put a lot of money into retaining the pond are untrue.
Despite backing the resolution desiring pond preservation, Capell added that they were making "no commitment about is Ralph Lauren Polo Blue Nz it a pond, is it a river, is it a dam. I don't know the answers to these things yet. "The city doesn't have money to sink into this black hole. If there Cheap Nike Air Max Nz are expenses that Pacific Power isn't covering, we're going to need to go to the voters to get it."
Also, he said, he likely would vote against transferring ownership of the pond to the city: "It's not our area of expertise," he said. "We don't have the funding to manage it. We can do that only if we maintain the upstream water surface of Mirror Pond.""You can not grow leaves and cut off your roots," Knight told Boozell. "You have to embrace the past. This pond and what it represents is the single most important resource of our past in this community."Before councilors voted Wednesday night, Mayor Clinton reiterated what he has been saying all along: There could be a different, creative solution, not just taking out the dam or fixing it.
He says the Bend Paddle Trail has come up with an idea where the dam would be taken out.
Clinton pointed to an illustration that showed a rock barrier near the Newport Avenue Dam. Mirror Pond would still be formed and gradually the water level would be lowered downstream. Clinton said this would be a natural option and would not require a fish ladder, for example.
The negotiations over the dam will continue; both sides are expected to meet again Friday.
Chudowsky said no fewer than five entities would have to provide permits if construction is to take place, and that options are expected to go Longchamp Handbag Nz to a vote.
"What we're doing here is setting a goal, a certain direction," he said. "It's still up in the air as to whether they will come about."
Dozens of cities across the country have had councilors urge lawmakers to act in the wake of that decision, which freed corporations from limits on campaign spending and, in critics' view, equated money with speech and gave corporations equal rights to people.
Councilors Clinton, Knight and Jodie Barram said they'd agree to send the measure to the May ballot, as it won't cost the city to add an item to a general election ballot. But colleagues Capell, Chudowsky and Scott Ramsay opposed such a move, for various reasons.
Chudowsky was the most strongly opposed, saying the group's goal is to limit free speech. Ramsay said he didn't believe it was the proper process and would not change anything or have any bearing on the eventual outcome of the issue at the federal level. Capell said supporters of such a vote should gather enough signatures to put it on the ballot on their own, without Air Jordan 6 council involvement.
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