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Decision means Portland Water Bureau must end use of Mt. Tabor and Washington park open-air reservoirs
By Steve Law
The Portland Tribune, May 18, 2012
The Oregon Health Authority has rejected the Portland Water Bureau’s request to delay covering open-air water reservoirs at Mt. Tabor and Washington parks.
The decision means Portland must end the use of the reservoirs by the end of 2020. Portland had requested an extension until 2026.
“We are very disappointed in this decision,” said bureau [...]
Continue reading State denies city request to delay covering reservoirs (Portland)
A new federal study found more than 100 toxic substances from everyday life are making their way through wastewater treatment plants into the Columbia River.
The U.S. Geological Survey study released today looked at post-treatment effluent from plants in Portland and eight other cities large and small up and down the river.
USGS hydrologist Jennifer Morace says everyday life is the source of the pharmaceuticals, flame retardants, pesticides, personal care products and cleaning materials, and the treatment plants are [...]
Continue reading Toxics from everyday life getting into Columbia River through sewage plants, USGS study finds
May 3, 2012 | OPB Vince Patton
One of the most toxic dumps in Oregon remains in legal limbo.
A deal cut by the state with the company that owns the site has now been dropped. And the Department of Environmental Quality has no plans – or money – to clean it up.
About 60 miles north of Lakeview a barbed wire fence surrounds a patch of desert. Warning signs tell people to stay away.
Boyd Levet remembers watching [...]
Continue reading Agent Orange dump site is Oregon desert’s toxic legacy
May 1st, 2012 | Category: Features, Legal, News, Oregon, Privatization, Protection, Southern Oregon, Surface Water, United States, Willamette River | A judge says the state should deny a Veneta company’s proposal to secure rights to water
By Christian Wihtol
The Register-Guard
Published: (Tuesday, May 1, 2012 05:01AM) Today
The state should deny a Veneta-based company’s bid to pump more than 21 million gallons of water a day from the McKenzie River for sale to south Lane County, a state administrative law judge ruled.
In his proposed order, the judge said Willamette Water Co.’s request for the water was improperly [...]
Continue reading Effort to tap river suffers a setback (McKenzie River)
Julie Raefield-Gobbo
April 30, 2012
Near the end of the second official Cascade Locks Joint Committee on Economic Development meeting April 25, a consensus was reached on the importance of ensuring the public had access to the facts on the Nestlé Waters bottling plant proposal.
JCED members, including Port Commissioners Brenda Cramblett and Jessie Groves; City Councilors Mark Storm and Randy Holmstrom and Mayor Lance Masters, differed in their approach to creating that access.
Groves offered that residents could read [...]
Continue reading Facts Matter: Cascade Locks leaders discuss obligation to inform public on Nestle’ plant
Julie Raefield-Gobbo
April 30, 2012
While legal and public protests have been raised against Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildlife on water access issues for a proposed Nestlé bottling plant, Governor John Kitzhaber has been called upon by environmental groups to stop ODFW in its tracks. Kitzhaber’s Regional Solutions team arrived at the Cascade Locks Joint Committee for Economic Development meeting on April 25 for a discussion on the status of the proposal from Nestlé to build the plant in [...]
Continue reading Governor Kitzhaber won’t stop Nestle water swap in Cascade Locks
By Laura L. Myers
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Washington | Sat Apr 28, 2012
(Reuters) – In the wilderness of Washington state’s Olympic National Park, hydraulic hammers chip away at the Glines Canyon Dam in the largest dam-removal project in U.S. history.
The grinding knocks off chunks of concrete, slowly removing the once-imposing 210-foot-tall (64-metre) structure, whose construction in 1927 on the Elwha River blocked one of the world’s most prolific salmon runs.
Nine miles downstream, workers last month removed the [...]
Continue reading Salmon revival in sight as Elwha River dams fall in U.S. Northwest
April 26th, 2012 | Category: California, Features, Legal, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, Oregon, Protection, Southern Oregon, Surface Water, United States | Upper Klamath Basin Refuge crisis will not be solved by restoration agreement: Time to take another path Greg King/For the Times-Standard Posted: 04/26/2012
Thanks to the Times-Standard for the April 10 AP article covering the Upper Klamath Basin water supply crisis on the National Wildlife Refuges (”Scarce Water Spreads Disease on Waterfowl Refuge”) and the related commentary by Erik Bergren (”Restoration Pact Offers Klamath Basin Hope,” Times-Standard, April 12). As Executive Director of the Northcoast Environmental Center, I was [...]
Continue reading Upper Klamath Basin Refuge crisis will not be solved by restoration agreement (LTE)
April 26th, 2012 | Category: Features, News, Oregon, Portland, United States | Attorneys challenge lawsuit that put service spending issues in election spotlight
By Jim Redden
The Portland Tribune, Apr 26, 2012
Critics cite the Water House demonstration project that cost $940,460 as an example of illegal ratepayer spending.
Spurred on by a critical city audit and a lawsuit, all three major City Council candidates are promising to rein in water and sewer rate increases.
But Kent Craford, who is involved in the lawsuit, warns Portland voters against accepting such claims at [...]
Continue reading Water rate fight could swamp (Portland) city campaigns
04/24/201
By PETER FIMRITE, San Francisco Chronicle
The deaths of up to 20,000 migrating birds this year in a wildlife refuge near the California-Oregon border has renewed debate about resource management on the Klamath River, where myriad competing interests are fighting for water rights.
The waterfowl began dropping dead from avian cholera in February after a lack of water forced as many as 2 million birds to bunch together in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, said [...]
Continue reading Death of waterfowl puts focus on water allocation
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