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dragline. <br /> 1985: May 21st to July 26th/ 15 days. City crews cleaned from west of Bertelsen to <br /> Beltline. Private contractor(Willamette Quarries) was hired to clean the channel <br /> from Beltline to Spectra Physics and to excavate an area in the flood plain at <br /> Spectra Physics to enlarge a basin and extend a pond area. <br /> 1986: August 28th to October 29th. City crews cleaned from 24th to Fox Hollow Rd. <br /> A private contractor was hired to repair the slide area west of Fir Butte Road and <br /> to clean the channel from Greenhill Rd to the Diversion Dam. <br /> 1987: April 16th to November 10th. City crews cleaned from Fox Hollow to Snell, <br /> repairing bank sloughing from Hilyard to Fox Hallow and removing trees (by <br /> hand) from 30th to 32nd. Crews also cleaned the channel from the south side <br /> between Friendly and Van Buren. The CAT was placed in the channel to remove <br /> an island at Van Buren. Private contractor was hired to repair a washout over a <br /> sanitary sewer line on the west bank of the Amazon near West 36th Ave. to <br /> widen the section of bank opposite the washed-out area. <br /> 1988: City crews cleaned the lined section on August 23 and 24, and repaired bank <br /> sloughing from Fox Hollow to Snell. <br /> 1989: City crews cleaned A-3 from Seneca to Wallis. Cleaned main channel from Polk <br /> to Chambers. Contract cleaning was the A-3 from Bertelsen to Beltline; A-2 <br /> from Beltline to Golden Gardens; and the Amazon Channel from Royal to <br /> Greenhill. <br /> 1990: City crews cleaned the Amazon Channel between Chambers Street and Buck <br /> Street. Contract cleaning was Diversion Channel from Royal to Greenhill. <br /> 1991: City crews cleaned the Amazon Channel from Oak Patch to W. 11th. <br /> 1992: City crews cleaned the Amazon Channel from W. 11th to Beltline. Lane County <br /> used jail inmates to clear berry vines along the Amazon at the fairgrounds. <br /> June - First Amazon Appreciation Day. Volunteers picked up litter and debris on <br /> section from Jefferson to City View. <br /> 1993: City crews cleaned the following areas of the Amazon; 24th Ave.-300 ft south and <br /> 200 ft north of W. 11th, and 200 ft south of W. 11th. Slide repairs at 500 ft west <br /> of Chambers, and the west bank north of 33rd. <br /> June - Amazon Appreciation Day. Volunteers picked up litter and debris on <br /> section from Hilyard to E 24th Ave. <br />