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Tillamook commissioners approve PUD transmission easement and amend conservation easement for Southern Flow Corridor
Summary
The board approved an electric utility easement for Tillamook Peoples Utility District and an amendment to an Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board conservation easement to permit a transmission line segment across part of the Southern Flow Corridor restoration project.
The Tillamook County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 22 approved an electric utility easement with Tillamook Peoples Utility District (PUD) and a companion amendment to an existing conservation easement held by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) that allows a portion of a new above‑ground transmission line to cross the Southern Flow Corridor restoration site.
Rachel Hagerty, the county's chief administrative officer, told commissioners the Southern Flow Corridor is a roughly 688‑acre wetland restoration and flood‑mitigation project constructed in 2016–2017; about 504 acres are encumbered by a conservation easement because state funding supported land acquisition. Hagerty said PUD's…
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