BATTLE GROUND — A $603,000 project to protect an eroding bluff on the East Fork of the Lewis River near Battle Ground has been washed away by high-water this winter.
The Vancouver Columbian reports that state and federal fish agencies voiced misgivings about how well the project would work. Taxpayers contributed $575,000 of the money with the rest paid by a conservation district and the owners of a half-dozen threatened homes.
Workers last summer piled gravel, boulders and logs 8 feet high across 8 acres on 1,200 feet of shoreline. The force of the river has swept much of it away or buried it under a new gravel bar.
Landowner Bruce Wiseman says the change is not a failure because rock is still protecting the bluff.
Talk to us
> Give us your news tips.
> Send us a letter to the editor.
> More Herald contact information.
