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City of Echo Bank Stabilization

Seal of Umatilla County featuring wheat, columns, and a bucket in a well.

Funding Agency: Umatilla County

Award Amount: $75,000 + $400,000 from the County, plus 2 million in Emergency Funds from the State

Project Start Date: November 2021

Projected End Date: 2024

Primary Entity: City of Echo

Project Description: The County gave the City of Echo funding to develop a design for bank stabilization immediately upstream and through the City of Echo. The City hired the engineering firm A&P to take the exisiting 10% NRCS designs to 100% and obtain the necesarry permitting. In June of 2022, an emergency erosion event took place and emergency rip-rap had to be installed to protect houses from going into the river. The funding for this project will be used to work on the mitigation stabilization design that will be required by the regulatory agencies now that the river has been fundamentally changed, and will also include two addotional location on the river outside the City of Echo. 

Next Steps: Awaiting Cultural Resource finalization. 

Project TimelineQ4 2021Q1 2022Q2 2022Q3 2022Q4 2022Q1 2023Q2 2023Q3 2023
Engineer Site Visits and Data Gathering X X X
Drone Flights and LiDAR Data Collection X XX
*Emergency Event* X X
Mitigation Meetings X X
Mitigation Designs and Permitting  XX
Construction Funding Search  X
Project ConstructionX X X