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August 21st, 2013 | Category: Bolivia, United Nations, Vermont | By Scott Learn, The Oregonian on August 20, 2013 at 4:34 PM, updated August 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM
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ROCKAWAY BEACH — From her front porch, Nancy Webster has a clear view of the hills just east of the coast highway, a western hemlock forest that’s home to Rockaway Beach‘s water supply.
The retired social worker, who grew up in a Northwest logging family, worried when she saw patchwork clear-cuts […]
Continue reading Do Oregon’s clear-cut and pesticide buffers protect drinking water from creeks, rivers?
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“And it worked pretty close to 100 years. By those standards, it was a premiere fish ladder back in the day,” Shibahara says.
When PGE relicensed its Clackamas dams recently, it agreed to abandon the ladder, and build a new fish staircase.
“It’s a whole lot easier to go up something with lower steps, instead of a ladder that’s near vertical,” Shibahara explains.
PGE aims to help fish get past the dam’s […]
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Water intake for Lake Oswego
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey have found 63 different pesticides and herbicides in the Clackamas River Basin. And testing shows some of those chemicals are winding up in the drinking water communities take from the river.
Sam Doane sits on the Clackamas River Basin Council, which looks out for water quality. So he knows about potential sources of pollution in the water. He’s […]
Continue reading Clackamas Watershed Collects Pollutants And Drinking Water
August 13th, 2013 | Category: Bolivia, New York, Vermont | By MITCH LIES
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Lawmakers advanced Oregon’s new Integrated Water Resources Strategy by creating new programs and extending existing ones during the recently completed 2013 legislative session, according to an Oregon Water Resources Department official.
In a report to the Oregon Water Resources Commission Aug. 9, Brenda Bateman, public information officer for the department, characterized the session as “extremely busy for water, both on the policy and budget sides.”
Lawmakers added resources to the department, Bateman said, extended […]
Continue reading Water fee hikes go into effect without panel’s approval
August 09, 2013 – 3:22 pm EDT
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BAKER CITY, Oregon — Baker City officials have shut off another source of city water as a result of a positive test for cryptosporidium, the parasite that sickened many residents.
The discovery this week of cryptosporidium in water from a mountain stream named Elk Creek adds to the mystery over the contamination, […]
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Article | August 8, 2013 – 1:00am | By Camilla Mortensen
Clean drinking water is a logging issue in Oregon, where so many of our watersheds are on forest lands. In the furor over the DeFazio forest bill — or more properly the O&C Trust, Conservation and Jobs Act — river advocates say that the need to protect water for fish, wildlife and humans gets lost as people argue over county payments, timber jobs and board feet.
John […]
Continue reading DeFazio Bill Bad For Clean Water?
The Bureau of Reclamation announced that it will release water from the Trinity River reservoirs to supplement flows in the Klamath River.
The additional water is meant to help prevent a fish kill and support salmon runs.
Pete Lucero is with the Bureau of Reclamation. He says water from the Trinity River reservoirs has gone to help the Klamath River before.
“We’re looking at perhaps making releases from the Trinity system as early as August 13 because it takes […]
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By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
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A livestock auction company is planning to appeal a federal judge’s dismissal of its lawsuit challenging the State of Oregon’s oversight of confined animal feeding operations, according to the company’s lawyer.
Last year, the Eugene Livestock Auction of Junction City, Ore., filed a complaint against two state agencies — the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Agriculture — claiming they were illegally administering federal law.
The complaint alleged that Oregon doesn’t have […]
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Radioactive groundwater at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor has risen above the level of an underground barrier meant to contain it and is headed for the Pacific Ocean.
Last month, Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the plant, acknowledged for the first time that the reactor was leaking contaminated underground water into the ocean.
On Monday, an official at Japan’s nuclear watchdog agency told Reuters that the situation constitutes an “emergency.”
Shinji Kinjo told the news agency that the leak […]
Continue reading Radioactive water leaking into Pacific, Fukushima watchdog declares “emergency”
Three floors under the closed Blue Heron paper mill, just above the Willamette’s summer waterline, ground and storm water trickle out of the darkness toward the river. The stream, carrying metals and other pollutants absorbed from the mill’s galvanized roofs and old piping, needs to be treated before it returns to the ecosystem. Jeffrey Pettey and his company, Gullywasher, are building a 6-foot wall of compost to do just that. The Blue Heron mill shut down in 2011 after […]
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