Shaver Transportation Company
4900 N.W. Front Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97210

June 22, 1968

District Engineer, Portland District
U.S. Engineer Corps
Pittock Block
Portland, Oregon 97205

Subject: Closing of Columbia Slough in Rivergate Industrial District

Gentlemen:

This company has operated in Columbia Slough in the past years and was responsible for requesting a project for Columbia Slough. At the time this request was made we were serving several shingle mills in the slough. There was never any appropriation that the writer can remember to carry out the project of 100 feet in width by ten feet in depth. The Corps did at different times help out with removing snags and trees that had fallen into the channel. Navigation was expensive due to the fact that the log rafts had to be cut up in sections and towed to the plants on account of the bends in the channel. At the present time there are no industrial plants served by navigation in this reach of the slough from its mouth to Untion Avenue. Also the present project width and depth would not serve large barge equipment due to the bends in the reach of the channel and the present width and depth of the project.

There would have to be considerable improvement straightening out the channel and as far as this company is concerned we do not feel that this kind of improvement would meet the formula for the cost of benefit ratio to the Corps. We, therefore, as a navigation company have no objection to the closing of the Columbia Slough.

Yours very truly,

SHAVER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY

Capt. Homer T. Shaver
President