Mile 238 - Salishan Spit, North Lagoon, Siletz Bay - November 27, 2016

Report Details

There were few people and one dog on this mile today. Driftline had the normal type of plastic polution we see here bottles, cups, styrofoam, plastic bits and some rope pieces from vessels. The physical changes have been in the foredune and addition of grading and riprap from last years storms over the summer months.

Conditions

Cloud Cover: Partly Cloudy.

Human Activities

Number of people: 3. Number of dogs: 1. Walking or running: 3. Overcast and fairly cold so not much beach activity

Vehicles

Cars/trucks parking: 1.

Beached Birds

Total dead birds: 1. No bands, not freshly dead a type of gull.

Driftline Content

Wood pieces, Marine debris (plastic, styrofoam, etc. washing in from the sea), Styrofoam, Ocean-based debris (from fishing boats, ship trash, etc.). fair amount of plastic debris (plastic bottles,plastic cups, sides of trays, bits of Styrofoam, pieces of hard flat plastic) boating debris (ropes tangled around sticks)

New Development

Bluff development. Over the course of 2016 from the early storms in January and December 2015 there has been quite a bit of erosion of the sand and retaining rocks. This summer there was much rebuilding of the bank in front of the coast houses with rock and regrading of the sand barrier. The entrance is now down a graded sand slope that someone has dug wooded steps into.

Man-made Modifications

New riprap or shoreline protection structures. see above

Natural Changes

Erosion of vegetated foredune.