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IN BRIEF
Badger blamed for
break in Oregon dam
HERMISTON — A burrowing
badger is being blamed for a 50-foot
break in an earthen dam that sent
78 million gallons of industrial la
goon water across a road and into a
tributary of the Umatilla River.
The lagoon contained processing
water from the J.R. Simplot Co. pota
to plant, storm runoff and cooling
water from a nearby energy plant.
“For the most part it was fresh wa
ter,” said Fred Zerza, a Simplot
spokesman in Boise. “The water itself
does not appear to be contaminated.”
State environmental officials
advised residents not to use well wa
ter as a precaution.
Simplot offered to test about a
half-dozen domestic wells in the
area and made bottled water avail
able, Zerza said.
The potato operation has been
closed since November.
The dam’s plastic liner gave way
and the water washed out part of
Oregon 207, closing it temporarily.
The lagoon is about six miles
south of Interstate 84 along 207.
“An animal, probably a badger,
burrowed its way through the dike
and chewed into the liner, and that
initiated the breach,” Zerza said.
The 15-year-old lagoon was less
than half full.
— The Associated Press
Neighborhood: Piercy says
communication important
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to make neighborhood associations
more powerful and more organized.
City Councilor David Kelly, who
represents the West University neigh
borhood and surrounding areas, said
the council has not done anything
more with the neighborhood initia
tive idea than make it a priority for
the next 18 to 24 months and said
councilors will discuss the idea in de
tail in the months to come. He said
the idea is “little more than a rough
goal” at the moment.
“By this being a priority issue it
means that the council is very inter
ested in having a renewed neighbor
hood focus,” Kelly said.
West University Neighbors Chair
Drix Rixmann said he has already no
ticed significant changes in the way
the city and the neighborhoods work
together, which are evident at meet
ings between neighborhood leaders.
He said there is already discussion
about ways to increase funding for
neighborhood newsletters and to
make possible changes to the city’s
Web site to highlight the city’s differ
ent neighborhoods.
Piercy said it is crucial that neigh
borhood meetings be a place where
different opinions can be heard.
She said she hopes to give neigh
borhood leaders the “training they
need to be able to bring out the vari
ous points of view” and to know how
to handle disagreement, because
“people won’t keep coming if they
don’t feel it’s a place where their
voices can be heard.”
Kelly said while the council cur
rently has not done anything more
than prioritize the neighborhood ini
tiative, the most important thing for
the public to keep in mind is that
neighborhoods are on the council’s
list of priorities.
“We’re at the first step of many
steps here,” Kelly said.
Rixmann said increasing neighbor
hood involvement may be the best
way to combat problems in the city
that some residents say have not
been given the attention they deserve
because of money problems.
Piercy said budget woes mean the
city cannot have the large number of
police officers patrolling specific areas
that citizens may like to see, and Rix
mann said that could be seen as anoth
er reason to increase neighborhood
awareness and involvement.
“What else can you do on a budg
et of nothing than just have the
neighbors do it themselves?” Rix
mann said.
Piercy said one thing city officials
may look at is a method to give
neighborhood associations a formal
role in planning processes and proj
ects the City Council is examining.
Piercy said the relationship be
tween the city and the University is
an important topic and is something
in which she would like to see neigh
borhood associations take a more ac
tive. She said one of the biggest is
sues she hears about is the questions
surrounding the University’s plans
for a basketball arena.
"If it’s located here then we have
a high interest in how it affects
our traffic flow, what kind of en
trance way it makes into our com
munity,” Piercy said. “So this whole
community is interested in how that
plays out.”
Piercy said she believes the Univer
sity does a fine job of engaging the
public in necessary discussion about
planning projects and is hopeful the
arena planning process will see
heavy public involvement.
“I just hope that the University re
ally gets engaged with people at the
front end,” Piercy said.
It is important for neighborhood
associations to get organized and to
tell city officials about specific things
like the arena project that they want
to be involved in, Piercy said.
“We have a responsibility, whether
we hear from them or not, to do our
best to engage; sometimes, though,
people don’t get really engaged ’til
pretty far down the conversation, and
I think we should be inviting them to
tell us how they would like to be in
teracting,” Piercy said.
“The stronger neighborhood asso
ciations we can have and the better
we can engage them in our commu
nity’s decisions, the better off we
are,” Piercy said.
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