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Salem locals can weigh in on clean air rules
TRACY LOEW SALEM STATESMAN JOURNAL
USA TODAY NETWORK
The public can weigh in on proposed state rules
meant to protect neighborhoods from industrial air pol-
lution.
Gov. Kate Brown launched the initiative, called
Cleaner Air Oregon, in response to public outcry about
unchecked cadmium pollution from two glass factories
in Southeast Portland.
The proposed rules regulate pollution from a public
health standpoint. They would require the state Depart-
ment of Environmental Quality to consider the cumula-
tive impacts of emissions from multiple sources.
Facilities would be required to report use of 600
chemicals, including heavy metals, and calculate po-
tential risks for people living, working and going to
school nearby.
Companies would have to reduce pollution levels
when health risks exceed targets. More time would be
given to companies that can demonstrate financial
hardship.
Only 80 facilities with the highest health risks would
be affected during the first five years. The facilities
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thews said. In January
2016 the agency ordered
the dairy to submit a new
plan for managing its
waste, but the dairy never
did, according to ODA
records.
In February 2017, ODA
cited the dairy for apply-
ing manure to a field with
standing water after an
inspector who happened
to be driving past noticed
the violation.
On March 9, ODA re-
ceived an anonymous
complaint alleging the
dairy was pumping ma-
nure onto its field at dusk
during a rainstorm, anoth-
er violation. John Volbeda
told the inspector he was
pumping his manure stor-
age lagoon onto the field
so it would not overflow.
On March 15, an ODA
inspector found the la-
goon overflowing and
waste being pumped onto
a grassy area where it
flowed
directly
into
Spring Valley Creek. Sam-
ples from the flow showed
E. coli levels hundreds of
times higher than state
water quality standards
allow.
ODA officials told Vol-
beda to stop the discharge
immediately.
Subsequent
inspec-
tions on March 16, 17, 20
and 21 found the lagoon
still running over and ma-
nure flowing into the
creek. Samples continued
to show E. coli levels in ex-
cess of state standards in
areas off the field and
near the creek. Volbeda
was told to haul the ma-
nure offsite.
But further inspec-
tions on March 23, 24 and
27 found the lagoons were
still too full.
On March 29, the Ore-
gon Attorney General’s
Office filed a lawsuit al-
leging the dairy violated
state water pollution laws
and the terms of its per-
mit. The judgment in the
case, issued last month,
effectively shut down the
dairy.
ODA’s Matthews said
it’s the first time in his 15
years with the depart-
ment that an Oregon dairy
has had its permit re-
voked.
A new operator
buys the property
John Volbeda dis-
solved Volbeda Dairy, his
45-year old company, in
September.
The $95,480 civil penal-
ty, levied against John
Volbeda and his defunct
company, will be reduced
to $47,740 if Volbeda
makes minimum monthly
payments of $1,990, Mat-
thews said.
Turley Farms, operat-
ed by Brian and Breanna
Turley of Dayton, is in the
process of buying the
property housing the
dairy and Willamette Val-
ley Cheese. The deal is ex-
pected to close in January,
Breanna Turley said.
Turley Farms has
applied to operate a new
dairy on the property. It
requested to have 1,600
animals, up from 1,210 al-
lowed under Volbeda’s
permit.
Turley Farms has nev-
er operated a dairy, Mat-
thews said. It owns a num-
ber of farms throughout
the Willamette Valley and
operates a trucking com-
pany specializing in trans-
porting farm commodi-
Bullseye Glass is suspected of releasing toxins in Portland. ASSOCIATED PRESS
have not yet been identified.
Written comments on the initiative will be accepted
through 4 p.m. Dec. 22. To comment, visit www.ore-
gon.gov/deq/Regulations/rulemaking/Pages/ccleane-
rair2017.aspx.
ties and waste.
The company plans to
truck much of the dairy
waste to other farm fields.
The milk will be sold to
Darigold, Breanna Turley
said.
The company also will
dispose of the creamery
waste – about 9,900 gal-
lons of wastewater and
1,200 gallons of whey each
week – for Willamette Val-
ley Cheese, which Rod
Volbeda will continue op-
erating.
ODA is accepting pub-
lic comments on the pro-
posal through Dec. 8.
There are no state or
federal regulations pro-
hibiting
cheesemakers
from making false claims
about the source of their
milk or from using the
term “farmstead,” Katie
Bray, executive director
of the Oregon Cheese
Guild, said.
But the American
Cheese Society, of which
Willamette Valley Cheese
is a member, allows the
name only for cheese
made with milk from the
farmer’s own herd, on the
farm where the animals
are raised.
Those rules would be
especially important for
contest entries, Rebecca
Orozco, the society’s com-
munications
director,
said.
Willamette
Valley
Cheese last won an Amer-
ican
Cheese
Society
award for farmstead
cheese in 2015.
In an interview Tues-
day, Darren Volbeda said
that cheese entered into
contests is aged for at
least two years.
"The ones in the compe-
tition were old enough to
be farmstead," he said.
The Oregon Cheese
Guild’s Bray said she un-
Public Notice
The Willamette Valley Cheese tasting room was at one point a
popular tourist destination where guests could try the dairy’s
award-winning cheeses. MOLLY J. SMITH / STATESMAN JOURNAL
derstands why Volbeda
had not updated his web
site, labels or marketing
materials.
Cheesemakers buy la-
bels by the thousands, to
get a good deal, she said.
“I would imagine if the
labels still say that, he’d
be using up the old ones,”
she said. “They make
beautiful,
delicious
cheeses. And they’re good
people. I know Rod would
like to be farmstead
again.”
The Guild’s website
also called Willamette
Valley Cheese "farm-
stead" and described Vol-
beda's
"feed-to-cheese"
philosophy.
Bray said she hadn’t
updated the site for more
than two years and
changed the listing after
the Statesman Journal
questioned it Dec. 1.
Tami Kerr, executive
director of the Oregon
Dairy Farmers Associa-
tion, said she couldn’t
comment specifically on
the Volbedas’ violations.
But she said heavy
rains last winter made
manure management dif-
ficult for dairies across
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Western Oregon.
“As an industry, we
have very high standards
and our producers take
that responsibility very
seriously,” Kerr said. “Ev-
ery dairy farmer in Ore-
gon understands what our
regulations are. That’s a
part of doing business.”
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