Newport City Council approved $600,000 from federal relief funds for design tasks to replace the Big Creek dams, keeping the project moving while the city awaits state lottery bond funds
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When thinking about drought, the Oregon Coast doesn’t exactly come to mind. It’s a temperate rainforest and there’s the ocean. But in several coastal cities, people have been asked not to wash cars or irrigate lawns over the last couple of summers. Now Newport is considering a permanent solution a big new dam.