Salt Bridge

The Scottsburg bridge is the last place traffic crosses the umpqua river. some folks say that ocean tides reach up here, roughly 18 miles from Reedsport - but somehow i just can't buy that anecdotal evidence. A team of juniors in oceanography at Reedsport High will pick up a project with Dr. Lenny to measure the extent of tidal influence up the Umpqua. Factors to watch include upstream precipitation, extent of snow pack, phase of the moon and tidal influences. Hopefully as the students get more in depth, they will start figuring howdt some of the other factors.