Tierra del Mar is an

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, United States, located on the

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, about south of

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and north of Pacific City and

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, along Sandlake Road, west of

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History

The community was named by Marie F. Pollock, who began selling lots in the development in 1935. ''Tierra del mar'' is

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for "land by the sea". One of the streets in the community is named after Pollock. In 1990, author

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described Tierra del Mar as a "growing toss of houses".

Projected location of Facebook submarine cable

Beginning in 2019, Tierra del Mar residents voiced opposition to

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subsidiary Edge Cable Holdings, USA's planned transpacific cable crossing to Asia, known as the JUPITER Cable System. Tillamook County approved the plan in January 2020. According to Facebook, Tierra del Mar is a likely site for a new branch of a fibre optic undersea telecommunications cable. Facebook's data center in

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, could be connected more easily with Japan and the Philippines with the cable. The cable is to be wholly owned by Facebook and will split off from the 60

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JUPITER cable that has its main branch ashore in

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and is owned by telecommunication firms in the Philippines (

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), Hong Kong (

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), and Japan ( NTT, which is building the JUPITER cable system) as well as SoftBank Telecommunications,

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, and Facebook. Edge Cable Holdings, USA, purchased a beachfront property about the size of 10

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s for $495,000 from former University of Oregon football player

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in 2018. From Tierra del Mar, the submarine cable, once ashore, could connect underground with another cable in Pacific City. On April 28, 2020, the drill hit an unexpected area of hard rock. The drill bit seized and the drill pipe snapped 50 feet below the seafloor. The crew was able to recover some of the equipment, but left the rest in the hole. Some of pipe, the drill head, and of

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remain in the hole. Facebook has no plans to retrieve the equipment. Edge Cable Holdings notified the county of the accident on 5 May, but did not explicitly mention the abandoned equipment. That information emerged at a meeting with state officials on June 17.Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloor

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, July 13, 2020

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* * {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Oregon Unincorporated communities in Tillamook County, Oregon