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March 24, 2015

Popular marina near Ashland due for overhaul after 50 years

  • Jackson County will seek bids soon to redesign docks, ramps and other facilities, and may move the docks into deep water so they useable in drought years.
  • By MARK FREEMAN
    Mail Tribune

    ASHLAND, Ore. — Patched together over more than 50 years, the marina at Howard Prairie Resort seems like a project even extreme makeover shows might shun.

    The ramps, which are not up to snuff with the Americans with Disabilities Act, lead to weathered docks with splinter-a-minute planks. Some of the pilings that keep those docks in check sit atop bedrock and are so poorly braced with rebar it takes only two fingers to move them.


     
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