Tribe tsunami tower can become a model for a nation

The tower in Tokland will be available in the event of an emergency for tribal and non-tribal members living outside the reserve at the southern tip of the peninsula.

CHIHALES, Washington – A groundbreaking and ground clearance ceremony for the first tsunami evacuation tower in the coastal community of Tokland has begun on land belonging to the Showalwater Bay Indian tribe.

The tower will be available in emergency situations to tribal members and non-tribal residents living outside the reserve at the southern tip of the peninsula.

With its completion expected by the end of 2021, it becomes the second or third tsunami evacuation structure in Washington state, and even North America.

Washington leads North America in tsunami evacuation structures. In 2017, the Ocosta School District opened a new school where a local bond issuance was paid in exchange for incorporating the ability to provide shelter from the tsunami waves.

The urgency to save lives is growing in coastal communities as scientists learn more about the dangers along the Washington coast from the subduction zone earthquake. Subduction zone earthquakes triggered a tsunami, the most vivid and documented example that occurred in March 2011 in northeastern Japan, a disaster that killed more than 16,000 people according to some estimates, with the vast majority of lives lost due to tsunamis.

The last earthquake in the subduction zone in Washington was recorded in January 1700, and it was partially documented by the Japanese who recorded a tsunami that wiped out coastal villages, but had no apparent cause felt by anyone in Japan.

Tribal stories, including those told within the Showalwater tribe, speak of a major flood.

Tree ring data found in dead trees on the Washington and Oregon coasts along with sandy sediments trapped in mud help date this and other tsunamis, some of which occurred as little as 300 years ago.

The tower site is located two blocks from the beach on the lowland peninsula where Tokland is located. Tribal people and others already have an option to reach bluff high at the northern end of their community, but the peninsula is too long for many people to be able to reach naturally high ground on foot. Cars is difficult to use, as it has a potential of up to 9 degrees and can damage and block roads.

Emergency managers say people have to wait for the earthquake to stop shaking, and they may have at least 15 to 20 minutes before the first tsunami arrives.

In Tokland, the Washington Geological Survey says there can be up to 30 minutes, with the wave rising 16 feet above ground level at the tower site. Props are expected to lower to support the tower and withstand some kind of soil instability caused by vibration by 50 feet.

Lee Shipman, a tribal member and now retired chief of the tribe’s emergency management office, got into the process of building the Rolling Tower – as the tribe began raising $ 1 million for the construction.

The efforts of Shoalwater Bay along with Washington State’s Emergency Department brought Area X from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that provided another $ 2.5 million in financial grant for construction. This collaboration led to the process of obtaining funding and building more towers, and now the larger communities in Ocean Shores and Westport are moving forward with their own plans for multiple towers to protect their residents.

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