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THIRD READING
Bill No: SCR 140
Author: Evans (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SUBJECT : Wesley Chesbro Pudding Creek Trestle
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates the Pudding Creek Trestle
in MacKerriker State Park in Mendocino County as the Wesley
Chesbro Pudding Creek Trestle.
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1.The Pudding Creek Trestle is a pedestrian-equestrian-bicycle
timber stringer bridge over Pudding Creek in MacKerriker State
Park, adjacent to the City of Fort Bragg in Mendocino County.
2.The trestle is 48 feet above sea level, with a total length of
515 feet and a deck width of 12 feet and was built by the
Union Lumber Company in 1915 as a logging railroad trestle.
3.During the early years of the 20th Century, the Union Lumber
Company harvested timber from forests along Ten Mile River,
and the Ten Mile Railroad was constructed to transport logs
from those forests, and over Pudding Creek, to the Fort Bragg
mill.
4.For 32 years the Ten Mile Railroad existed as a working
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railroad, hauling logs and transporting workers and after
World War II, logging trucks replaced the railroad, and the
right-of-way, including the trestle, were converted for truck
use in 1949.
5.All use of the trestle ended in 1983, and the Department of
Parks and Recreation acquired the unused logging road and
nearby headlands in 1995.
6.In 2001, Senator Wesley Chesbro requested a report on the
structural condition of the trestle, and state engineers
concluded that with some structural modifications it could be
safely used by non-motorized traffic, including pedestrians,
bicyclists, and equestrians, to provide easy access from Fort
Bragg to the beaches at MacKerricher State Park and to create
the key link in one of the longest public trails along the
California coast.
7.Senator Chesbro thereupon committed to securing funding
through the State Coastal Conservancy or from unallocated park
bond funds and gathered department heads from affected state
and federal agencies to form a working group to pursue the
project.
8.Thanks to Senator Chesbro's leadership, the Budget Act of 2003
provided $235,000 in Proposition 40 funds for preliminary
plans and working drawings to rehabilitate the trestle, in
2004, the trestle project was awarded $1,939,000 in
Proposition 40 funds for construction, and in 2006, the
project was awarded an additional $1,666,000 to complete the
project.
This resolution designates the Pudding Creek Trestle in
MacKerricher State Park as the Wesley Chesbro Pudding Creek
Trestle.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
JG:e 8/6/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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