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Too much E. Coli present in The Dalles wastewater

  • Staff report Columbia Gorge News
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THE DALLES — The Dalles wastewater treatment plant has been discharging fluid that exceeds the plant’s limit for E. coli since Aug. 1, due to incomplete disinfection. 

City of Cascade Locks receives DEQ fine
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City of Cascade Locks receives DEQ fine

  • By Nan Noteboom For Columbia Gorge News
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CASCADE LOCKS — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued a penalty for the City of Cascade Locks

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Letter to the editor: Unique opportunity

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To the editor: The departure of the city manager, the arrival of two new city councilors coupled with a visionary mayor gives us a unique opportunity. We have an opportunity to look at alternative models and approaches to providing city services.

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Potential threats loom this fall in watershed

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Nestled near the woods along Mill Creek, the city’s water treatment plant escaped unscathed from the Government Complex Fire, thanks to around-the-clock fire protection. But another potential threat is yet to come. If heavy rains hit this fall and winter, runoff from the thousands of barren, burned acres in the watershed could send rivers of silt into the plant.

Mill Creek homes have close call
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Mill Creek homes have close call

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Bruce Schwartz looks out over a burned-out area where the Blackburn Fire, part of the Government Flats Fire Complex, jumped a fireline officials had hoped would keep the fire from threatening The Dalles water treatment plant and area homes, like the nearby home of his daughter Teal Everts. Everts, at left, next to her Mill Creek home and the hillside that burned, watched the fire hit and jump the line.