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City forester briefs council on watershed stewardship, timber sale revenue and carbon-project reverification
Summary
City Forester Ben Hayes told the Astoria City Council on April 7 that watershed stewardship, a recent timber sale and the city’s voluntary carbon project continue to generate funding used for road maintenance and mitigation work in the 3,700-acre municipal watershed.
Ben Hayes, the city forester, gave a yearly update April 7 on operations in the city-owned drinking-water watershed about 10 miles east of Astoria. The watershed covers roughly 3,700 acres that the city has owned since the 1950s and provides the city’s municipal water supply.
Hayes told councilors the watershed requires significant road maintenance to limit sediment delivery into source water; the city spent about $65,000 last year on mainline road maintenance and is moving to an annual scope of work that will…
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