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WASHINGTON — Eighty thousand cubic yards of dirt. Thirty steel girders. An eightfoot-high concrete wall. All to hold back floodwaters that may, or may not, surge across the Mall in the next century or so. But in the apocalyptic, postHurricane Katrina world, no chances can be taken. So government officials announced this week that work is about to start on a $9 million flood-control project that will alter the landscape of the Mall west of the Washington Monument to protect it, and part of Washington, from potential catastrophe.
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“It became necessary for us to finally protect this Mall with something other than sandbags The notion of breaking this landscape is really heartbreaking to me and should be to all who value what the Mall stands for. But … there was nothing else to do.”
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The flood zone project will add berms and about a 450-foot-long post-and-panel system that would protect a swath of the Mall from extreme floods. Construction will begin in a few weeks and should be completed next summer.
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Heading off disaster When FEMA reviewed Washington’s flood zones, it concluded that existing plans to use sandbags and jersey barriers to block floodwaters flowing north on
Eight-foot-tall aluminum panels will be placed manually in the event of a flood threat.
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The project will create a levee that would be erected across 17th Street below Constitution Avenue in the event of a huge flood. It calls for the construction of large earthen berms, using tons of dirt, and the eight-foot walls on both sides of 17th Street. It also will require engineers to sink a series of caissons 30 feet deep into the surface of 17th Street, where girders could be placed to support temporary panels to block floodwater. Work is to begin next month and conclude next summer. The project aims to protect large sections of downtown Washington from extensive river flooding, and to keep those sections from being declared a flood zone, which could require property owners to buy flood insurance. Such insurance runs about $1,500 a year, officials said. The project is the result of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s nationwide review of flood zone maps after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and parts of the Gulf Coast in 2005.
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17th Street from the Potomac River and the Tidal Basin were inadequate. FEMA foresaw a scenario in which a flood could inundate a huge crescent of downtown Washington from 17th Street and Constitution Avenue east to the Capitol and south toward Fort McNair. And it proposed placing the area — including Federal Trian-
gle, the east end of the Mall, and several Smithsonian museums — in the 100-year flood zone unless a better flood-prevention system was devised. “It became necessary for us to finally protect this Mall with something other than sandbags,” Washington, D.C., Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said at this week’s announcement.
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Working together, the city, the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service and other agencies came up with the idea for a robust flood barrier at a “choke point” on 17th Street. It is called a post-and-panel system, officials said. In the event of a flood, girders would be erected temporarily and eight-foottall aluminum panels assembled between the girders to block the
surging water. Although the project is deemed necessary, Norton expressed some dismay. “I regret that, however minor, any structure is on this land,” she said. “The notion of breaking this landscape is really heartbreaking to me and should be to all who value what the Mall stands for. But … there was nothing else to do.”
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PORTLAND — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has found that poachers are killing as many mule deer as legal hunters. The poaching is considering a contributing factor to a decline in the state mule deer population, which has fallen to 216,000 animals from historic peaks of more than 300,000. Research supervisor DeWayne Jackson in Roseburg said poachers typically kill female deer, which are more important to reproduction. Licensed hunters kill more bucks than does. “If we look at the illegal take, it’s basically equal to the legal take — it’s bad,” said Michelle Dennehy, a Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman in Salem. “Poaching is not ethical, it’s not hunting.”
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Species under pressure Oregon mule deer are native to the state and typically found east of the Cascade Range crest. Wildlife managers say the deer are under intense pressure from predators, including an estimated 5,700 cougars roaming Oregon’s forests and high deserts, up from 2,600 two decades ago. Oregon also has 25,000 black bears, and Canadian gray wolves have staked claim to the state’s northeastern corner. All three species prey on mule deer. Automobiles, too, account for plenty of mule deer deaths. A Fish and Wildlife study documented 1,626 mule deer killed by motor vehicles along 150 miles of U.S. 97 and Oregon 31, south of Bend, between October 2005 and January. Dennehy said habitat issues are also a concern in Central Oregon, where resort development, new homes and other human activities have sharply reduced winter range for mule deer.
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Because the study wasn’t designed to detect poachers, biologists don’t know if other areas have comparable numbers of deer taken illegally, said Don Whittaker, Fish and Wildlife ungulate coordinator. But wildlife managers suspect poaching is happening across Oregon. Poaching “is out of hand in Oregon,” said Ken Hand of Klamath Falls, regional director of the 11,000-member nonprofit Mule Deer Foundation based in Salt Lake City. “It’s going on all over the state, 365 days a year. From all the contacts I have around the state, I just hear about it
constantly.” The chance of Oregon’s mule deer population ever rebuilding seem pretty slim “with the predators out there, including the humans,” he said.
LOS ANGELES — Enacting one of the nation’s most aggressive environmental measures, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban plastic grocery bags in unincorporated areas of the county. The ban, which will cover nearly 1.1 million residents countywide, is to the point: “No store shall provide to any customer a plastic carryout bag.” An exception would be made for plastic bags that are used to hold fruit, vegetables or raw meat in order to prevent contamination with other grocery items. If grocers choose to offer paper bags, they must sell them for 10 cents each, according to the ordinance. The revenue will be retained by the stores to purchase the paper bags and educate custom-
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State biologists discovered the level of poaching during a five-year research study of deer between Bend and the California border, The Oregonian reported. The state study of 500 mule deer fitted with radio collars was conducted between July 2005 and last January. Researchers said 128 deer
died during the study. Of those, poachers killed 19 and hunters legally shot 21. Cougars killed 15 and eight were hit and killed by cars. Of the rest, five succumbed to coyotes, disease claimed five and four others died while tangled in fences or from some other accident, Jackson said. Biologists listed 51 as “cause of death unknown,” but poachers could have taken some of those, he said. “Sometimes we just find the radio collar laying out in the sagebrush,” he said.
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