Pacific City
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CAC seeks nominations for its executive board ................................6
Greenery galore awaits at Curious Plants & Treasures
Historical Society installs mural in downtown Cloverdale.................... 8
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Tillamook County’s positive COVID cases continue to climb.....................11
Vol. 14, No. 347 • July 17, 2020 • FREE!
Filled to the Brim Photo by Tim Hirsch
PCJWSA manager Kirk Medina
PCJWSA installs sewage monitors
Crowds return to Cape Kiwanda as July weather heats up
As part of its effort to develop an updated Sewer Master Plan, the Pacific City Joint Water-Sanitary Authority installed wastewater flow meters at three strategic locations in its system on June 29 and 30. Authority manager Kirk Medina told the Sun that the meters will help PCJWSA identify how much sewer capacity it has in different areas of its system. To do that, the plan is to have the meters in place for nine months. During that time, the monitors will continuously monitor and provide the Authority with hourly flow data. “We (will be able to) see what maximum flows are during peak hours and peak days,” Medina told the Sun. “The data will be used to help us predict future capacity for growth.” Noting that since transient lodging reopened, water and sewage flows have returned to within 5 percent of what they were a year ago, he said he does not believe that COVID will impact the data collected. The Sewer Master Plan is expected to be completed by June 2021.
First responders conduct rescue operation after boat capsizes
FIRST RESPONDERS answered the call on July 15 after a 12-foot rigid inflatable boat capsized near the mouth of Nestucca Bay. A 19-year man survived without injury but emergency workers were unable to resuscitate a 73-year-old West Linn man, who was unresponsive when recovered from the water.
Photos by Tim Hirsch
Emergency crews responded on Wednesday, July 15 to a Tillamook County Communications District 911 call that reported a 12-foot rigid inflatable boat with two occupants had capsized south of Haystack Rock. The call came in at approximately 10:49 a.m. According to the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office, the boaters had just finished laying crab pots in the bay and had gone out to the ocean to do some fishing. Reportedly, they had been out in the ocean approximately 10 minutes when they had a sudden motor shift and were capsized by a swell. The initial caller, a 19-year-old man from southeast Portland, was one of the boat’s occupants and was reportedly on top of the overturned boat. He was reporting the other occupant, a 73-year-old man from West Linn, was still in the water, 30 feet from his boat, unresponsive, and drifting farther away. First responders from the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office, The US Coast Guard, Nestucca Rural Fire Protection District, and an Adventist Health-Tillamook Ambulance were dispatched to assist. North Lincoln Fire and Netarts Fire & Rescue were also on hand thanks to a mutual aid agreement with NRFPD. At approximately 11:13 a.m., the 73-year-old man was located and pulled from the water by personnel aboard a USCG
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helicopter. Rescuers reportedly immediately began providing lifesaving measures and transported him to Pacific City State Airport where medical crews were waiting. However, resuscitation attempts were not successful. The boat and the 19-year-old man washed up on a sandbar and the helicopter returned and picked him up at 11:41 a.m. He was transported to Pacific City State Airport where he was examined and released without injuries. “By the time we got to the mouth (of the Nestucca River), the Coast Guard was taking one of the individuals up out of the water,” said Brian Jones, battalion chief of training for Nestucca Fire, who was NRFPD’s commanding officer for the incident. Jones said that in his contact with the survivor, he learned that the victims were in the water for 40 minutes to 1 hour. He also noted that both individuals had been wearing inflatable life preservers. According to the Sheriff’s Office, it is believed that a medical condition may have contributed to the initial capsize, as the 73-year-old man had been piloting the boat when he had suddenly jerked the rudder and was unresponsive immediately upon entering the water. Tillamook County Sheriff’s deputies later assisted in recovering the boat.