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Kelly Butte is part of the Boring Lava Field in Portland, Oregon, and is a Portland Parks & Recreation Natural Area[1]. The entrance to the park is located at approximately 45°30′04″N 122°33′21″W / 45.501247°N 122.555889°W.
Post-War Use
editThe City of Portland acquired the butte in 1954 [2] and built an 18,820 sq. ft. shelter into the eastern part of the butte for use as a Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center. Construction began in 1954[3], and was substantially completed in 1956[4], about one year after a Civil Defense test evacuation that cleared the downtown area in 19 minutes.
The shelter was designed to withstand a 20 megaton "near miss", and housed the Emergency Operations Center for the city from the completion of it's construction in 1956 until the city changed it's Civil Defense priorities after the Columbus Day Storm of 1962. This also occurred, in part, due to US Senator from Oregon Wayne Morse's contention that "such efforts are a hoax" lulling people into a false sense of security[5].
The Portland Police Bureau used the facility for a training center starting in about 1967, and in 1972, the City did a feasability study regarding using the center as an emergency call taking facility (what we now know as 9-1-1). The result of the study was that the bunker was used by a new City bureau starting in 1974 that became known as the Bureau of Emergency Communications.
The Oregonian, September 9, 1956 The Oregonian, October 23, 1960
The Oregonian, December 13th, 1992 Willamette Week, November 20, 1982.
http://kellybutteunderground.blogspot.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20000520031443/http://www.ci.portland.or.us/boec/history1.htm
blueprints http://efiles.ci.portland.or.us/webdrawer/rec/2844682/
Artist Henk Pander contracted to create a mural on the south wall of the operations floor in 1987 (ordinance 159526) http://efiles.ci.portland.or.us/webdrawer/rec/2484992/view/
rADIO TOWER Repainted ordinance 161869 http://efiles.ci.portland.or.us/webdrawer/rec/2482885/view/
ordinace 162301 emp protection http://efiles.ci.portland.or.us/webdrawer/rec/2534056/view/
10/28/92 - improbements in HVAC due to poor circulation and air quality - ordinance 165935 http://efiles.ci.portland.or.us/webdrawer/rec/2469261/view/
1986-1987 - replacement of the "Chillers" to keep environment at stable temperature - ordinance 159237 1986-1987 - renovation of Kelly Butte Interiors - ordinance 159606 1987-1988 - renovation of Kelly Butte Interiors under different scope due to projected budget overruns - ordinance 160232 removal of underground tanks and contaminated soil 1999 ordinance #173120 http://efiles.ci.portland.or.us/webdrawer/rec/2453113/view/
search for documents containing "kelly butte" http://efiles.ci.portland.or.us/webdrawer/search/rec?sm_anyword=kelly+butte&sort1=rs_dateCreated&count
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+day+called+x&emb=0&aq=-1&oq=the+day+called+#
Footnotes
edit- ^ http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?action=ViewPark&PropertyID=210
- ^ http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?action=ViewPark&PropertyID=210
- ^ http://efiles.ci.portland.or.us/webdrawer/rec/2763382/
- ^ http://www.portlandonline.com/Auditor/index.cfm?a=11059&c=27408
- ^ http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=000B608E-12D6-1E8A-891B80B0527200A7
References
editEllis, Barnes C. and Kiyomura, Cathy: "Old bomb shelter available as 9-1-1 crew moves out", The Oregonian, 13 December 1992, B3