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<br />RELATIONS DES'IRED TO COPE WI TH THE INDUSTRIES AND THE STATE IN AN EFFORT TO EFFECT AN
<br />OVERALL AIR POLLUTION PROGRAM. IT SEEMED TO BE THE CONSENSUS OF OPINION THAT AIR
<br />POLLUTION WAS RAPIDLY BECOMING JUST AS IMPORTANT AS WATER POLLUTION.
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<br />~ERTAINING TO OUR PARTICULAR PROBLEM HERE RELATIVE TO THE WATER EMANATING FROM THE
<br />WEYERHAUSER PULP MILL AND THE KRAFT PULP PROCESS AND THE USE OF HYDROGEN SULPHIDE IN THE
<br />DOUGLAS FIR INDUSTRY, IT WAS BROUGHT OUT BY MR. MAGILL AND lEDuc THAT SOME PROGRESS WAS
<br />BEING MADE IN THE OXIDIZING OF CHEMICALS IN THE BLOW-DOWN PROCESS BUT THAT IT MIGHT TAKE
<br />YEARS TO WORK OUT A SATISFACTORY TREATMENT WHICH WOULD BE ECONOMICALLY PRACTICAL.
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<br />THE AFTERNOON SESSION ON MONDAY WAS "FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC WORKS UNDER DISASTER
<br />CONDITIONS" PANEL: BURTON WASHBURN, B. A. DEVINE, GEORGE F. HELLESOE, W. H. PARK, E. L.
<br />CHASE AND JOHN G. MARR. A GENERAL REVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF CITY DEPART-
<br />MENTS, ELECTRIC AND WATER UTILITIES, COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION BROUGHT TO OUR
<br />ATTENTION THAT DEFINITE COORDINATING PLANS FOR AGENCIES SHOULD BE PREPARED AT ALL TIMES
<br />TO COPE WITH GENERAL DISASTER AS WELL AS NATIONAL DEFENSE. EMPHASIS WAS PLACED ON DISASTER
<br />AND THE NEED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION BY ALL AGENCIES RATHER THAN UPON THE PRESENT POSSIBILITY
<br />OF NATIONAL AGRESSION OR INVASION. BEGINNING WITH THE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS, IMPORTANCE
<br />WAS BROUGHT OUT PERTAI NING TO STAND-BY CAPACITY FOR THE REPAIR OF ANY HIGHWAY BRIDGES AND
<br />ROADS AND STREETS IN CASE OF A DISASTER AND OF THEIR ASSISTANCE WITH MUNICIPALITIES AND
<br />COUNTIES DURING SUCH A TIME AND PARTICULARLY THE DESIRABILITY OF HAVING MATERIALS AVAILABLE
<br />FOR SUCH EMERGENCY USES. COMMUNICATIONS BEING SEGREGATED IN SEPARATE CONTROL POINTS WERE
<br />EMPHASIZED AND ALSO FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND OTHER CITY UTILITIES IN BEING SO LOCATED AS TO
<br />BE AVAILABLE AT LEAST IN PART AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME. THE CONTINUED VIGILANCE PERTAINING
<br />TO THIS WEST COAST AREA WAS BROUGHT OUT AND SOME VERY INTERESTING COMMENTS BY MR. RICHARD
<br />GRAVES CRITICIZEO THE NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM AS NOT BEING CONCRETE OR SPECIFIC ENOUGH
<br />FOR ANY CITY OR STATE TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE OVER-ALL NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM AT
<br />THIS TIME. ASPECTS OF THE ATOMIC DEVELOPMENT WERE DISCUSSED ANO THE RESULTANT RESPONSI-
<br />BILITIES OF ALL AGENCIES IN FUTURE PREPAREDNESS IF SUCH NEEDS SHOULD ARISE. HOWEVER,
<br />DURING THIS CONVERSATION MR. GRAVES AGAIN CRITICIZED THE NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM IN NOT
<br />HAVING SET UP MORE CONCRETE POLICIES ANO ASSiSTANCE To CITIES AND STATES IN AN OVER-ALL
<br />CATASTROPHE PROGRAM.
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<br />2. TUESDAY MORNING SESSIONS OF "REFUSE COlLECTION AND DISPOSAL" PANEL: W. A. SCHNEIDER,
<br />R. W. FINKE, RALPH G. WADSWORTH, VINTON W. BACON AND "MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF CITY
<br />STREETS". PANEL: WILLIAM A. BOWES, RICHARD GALLAGHER, PHILLIP W. STORM, J. C. ALBERS,
<br />E. V. CAMPBELL, PROFESSOR DONALD S. BERRY AND PROFESSOR RALPH A. MOYER.
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<br />THE DESIGN, MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF CITY STREETS WAS QUITE THOROUGHLY ANALYZED WITH
<br />REFERENCE TO THEIR PRESENT AND FUTURE USE, AMOUNT ANO KIND OF TRAFFIC AND TERMINATION OF
<br />THESE. STREETS WHETHER THEY ARE CONNECTED WITH THROUGH TRAFFIC, FEEDER TRAFFIC OR END AT
<br />THE C.ITY liMITS.
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<br />CAPACITIES, WIDTH, TRANSIT AND PARKING AND PERCENTAGE OF COMMERCIAL VEHI CLES WERE
<br />DISCUSSED. AN INTERESTING POINT WAS BROUGHT OUT THAT PROPERTY DAMAGE ACCIDENTS SHOULD BE
<br />RECORDED ON MAPS AS WELL AS TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. THE REVERSIBLE FLOW METHOD USED IN MANY
<br />CITIES FOR CHANGING THE CENTER LANES OF TRAFFIC TO ACCOMMODATE INCOMING OR OUTGOING HEAVY
<br />FLOWS BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 6:00 TO 9:00 IN THE MORNING FOR INCOMING TRAFFIC AND 4:00 UNTIL
<br />7:00 IN THE EVENING FOR OUTGOING TRAFFIC ILLUSTRATES A VERY CONCENTRATED USE OF STREETS AND
<br />HIGHWAYS.
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<br />CONSIDERABLE TIME WAS SPENT ON THE MAINTENANCE OF CITY STREETS, EMPHASIZING THE
<br />DESIRABILITY OF PROGRAMMING THE WORK ON A PRIORITY BASIS FROM A RATING SCHEME RECENTLY
<br />DEVELOPED BY THE BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
<br />INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC ENGINEERING WHICH PERMITS THE SCHED~LING OF
<br />RESURFACING OF STREETS ON A BASIS OF FACTS RATHER THAN OPINION. THIS METHOD CONSISTS OF
<br />TAKING ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENTS ON THE ENTIRE STREET SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH TRAFFIC AND
<br />VOLUME COUNTS AT KEY POINTS WHICH PROVIDE A FACTUAL BASIS FOR DETERMINING WHICH STREETS ARE
<br />MOST IN NEED OF RESURFACING AND WHICH RESURFACED STREETS WILL RESULT IN THE GREATES~ PUBLIC
<br />BENEFIT. THE MEASUREMENT OF ROUGHNESS IS BASED UPON INCHES PER MILE AND THE DESIRED OB-
<br />JECTIVES ARE TO REDUCE CITY STREETS WHICH HAVE 400 OR MORE INCHES PER MILE OF ROUGHNESS
<br />DOWN TO AN ACCEPTABLE MEDIUM OF 200 INCHES PER MILE. THIS IS A MANNER OF MEASURING THE
<br />TO SOME DEGREE BY OBSERVATION AND A THOROUGH OVER-ALL STUDY WITHOUT THE USE OF THE ABOVE
<br />MEASURING EQUIPMENT. THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS BROUGHT OUT, WERE THE PROGRAMMING pF THE
<br />WORK IN A UNIFORM MANNER IN THE REPAIRING OF STREETS IN THE ORDER WHICH WOULD BE OF MOST
<br />BENEFIT TO THE MOST PEOPLE AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE.
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<br />DRAINAGE OF STREETS AND MAINTENANCE COSTS IN THEIR REPAIR WERE DISCUSSED PERTAINING
<br />TO THE AMOUNT AND TYPE OF TRAFFIC INVOLVING HEAVY TRUCKING OVER STREETS AND ARTERIALS IN
<br />DESIGN FOR SUCH ROADS AND IN THIS CONNECTION THE PROPER DESIGN FOR STREETS AND ARTERIALS
<br />TO ACCOMMODATE HEAVY TRAFFIC AS WELL AS MIXED TRAFFIC. THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER SIGNS AND
<br />THE ADVANTAGES OF THE REFLECTORIZED SIGNS AND NEON SIGNS ALSO WAS BROUGHT OUT WITH PARTI-
<br />CULAR REFERENCE TO ONE-WAY GRID SYSTEMS. CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSIONS AND'RE'VIEW OF THE AD-
<br />VANTAGES OF ONE-WAY GRID SYSTEMS INCLUDING CHARTS AND SLIDES PERTAINING TO THE PORTLAND
<br />ONE-WAY SYSTEM BROUGHT OUT A POSSIBILITY FOR THE INCREASED MOVEMENT OF OUR TRAFFIC-ON
<br />WILLAMETTE STREET WHERE A RIGHT HAND OR LEFT HAND MOVEMENT IS PERMITTED. THIS WOULD
<br />ENTAIL DEVELOPING A RIGHT LANE OR LEFT LANE FOR RIGHT OR LEFT TURNS ONLY AND AT THE
<br />SPECIFIC CROSS-WALKS INVOLVED, MOVING THE CROSS-WALKS BACK TO AFFORD ROOM FOR THE JURNING
<br />OF THE CAR INTO THE RIGHT HAND LANE OR LEFT HAND LANE WITHOUT CROSSING PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC
<br />AND LEAVING THE TWO CENTER LANES FREE TO MOVE SOUTHERLY ON WILLAMETTE."
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