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Edgar Jerome Fennimore
March 30, 1934 — May 31, 2018
Edgar Jerome Fennimore, 84, passed
away on May 31, 2018, in Mt. Angel.
He was born to Edgar L. and Madeline
(Gilman) Fennimore at their home on
Cascade Hwy. in Silverton on March 30,
1934.
At 16 years old, Edgar moved to An-
chorage, Alaska, for three years. He
Edgar
returned home and bought the farm
Fennimore
across the road from where he was
born. He met and married Jean Dowe, and they lived
there for 62 years until he became ill.
He enjoyed the outdoors, especially fishing, hunting
and cowboy music. Edgar worked in construction for
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there’s no reason to put out any special alerts,” said
Gates public works superintendent Greg Benthin.
“If we wanted to, we could have. I didn’t see any rea-
son to do that.”
Salem, Stayton, Jefferson, Mehama and Lyons all
draw their water from the North Santiam River, but all
use older sand filters.
Gates, the smallest city below Detroit Dam, has a
newer, more sophisticated water filtration system.
How Gates’ system works
Gates has a membrane filtration system, a type of
system designed for filtering wastewater and produc-
ing water from industrial uses.
The process worked so well, it started to be used in
areas where conventional treatment styles are uneco-
nomical.
In California they have been used since 1993 – espe-
cially in areas where removing pathogens is para-
mount – but in Oregon, Gates’ facility was one of the
first when it opened in 2009.
In a membrane filtration system, the water pene-
trates hollow straws through pores .02 microns wide.
A human hair is about 90 microns.
The water is filtered and comes through the straw
clean. There are about 20,000 straws in each of the
four tanks – known as ladders – in Gates’ membrane
water filtration system, which is housed in a building
no bigger than an average barn on the edge of the
North Santiam River.
“In my opinion, the real benefit of a membrane fil-
tration is it’s a physical barrier,” Benthin said. “As long
as they’re performing like they should, if (the toxins)
are larger than this, it’s not going to get through.”
Bend opened a large-scale membrane water treat-
ment facility in 2016 at a cost of $33 million. Many larg-
er municipalities are moving to the same process.
In membrane water treatment, there are five types
of processes that can be used: microfiltration, ultra-
filtration, nanofiltration, electrodialysis reversal and
reverse osmosis.
Each of the five processes filter the water finer and
remove more contaminants.
The ultrafiltration used by Gates filters out things
like algae, cryptosporidium (which has been found in
Portland's water in the past), bacteria, macromole-
cules, asbestos and virus.
How Gates got a superior
water filtration system
Gates, a city without a a website, has held water
over 40 years, mostly for Marion Construction of Sa-
lem. He loved his farm and his animals, especially his
horses and cattle. Edgar was proud of his building
projects and his log houses. He loved spending time
with his family.
Edgar is preceded in death by his parents; his broth-
ers Charles, Emmett and Cyril; baby granddaughter
Barbara Jean; and daughter-in-law Juanita.
He is survived by his wife, Jean; his children, Michael
(Judy) of Aloha, Patrick of Silverton, Melodee (Dan)
Corgan and Ted (Edgar Jr.) of Salem; his brother, Gil-
men; his sister, Sr. Mechtilde, O.S.B, of Mt. Angel; 18
grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Services were held June 5, 2018, at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church in Mt. Angel.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to Alz-
heimer's Research, St. Mary’s Catholic Church or any
rights from the North Santiam dating to 1951, the same
time Detroit Dam was being constructed.
Benthin said in the 1980s, Gates was using sand fil-
tration.
“It’s just a different process,” Benthin said. “A slow
sand uses a biological process for removal for bacte-
ria.”
Gates officials explored using wells for its water –
which is what Mill City went to in 2005 – but couldn’t
find a promising well.
Benthin said the membrane water filtration system
cost approximately $1 million, paid for by a combina-
tion of a grants from the state and loans.
The expected life of the facility is 20 years, but after
nine years has had no drop in effectiveness and only
had to replace a few parts in the pumping plant.
Its system can filter a maximum of 330,000 gallons
of water a day; on a slow day it will pump 40,000.
Gates didn’t test its water for cyanotoxins in its
drinking water until the Oregon Health Authority of-
fered to pay for testing three years ago.
Outside of cleaning the equipment, Gates doesn’t
use chemicals in processing its water. It uses a small
amount of chlorine in its finished drinking water.
Gates residents paid an average of $52.10 for 5,000
gallons as of 2016; Salem residents pay $22.84 for the
same volume.
How safe is the water in Gates?
In Gates’ most recent test – from which it drew wa-
ter on May 22 – there was an untraceable amount of
cylindrospermopsin and .25 micrograms per liter of
microcystin in the raw water pulled from the North
Santiam.
After it was processed through the treatment plant,
the levels of both cyanotoxins were undetectable by
the tests performed by the Lake Superior State Univer-
sity laboratory.
Benthin draws water samples and sends them off
for testing every two weeks.
Had there been a positive test for any cyanotoxins
in the finished water, Benthin said, he would send the
water for testing more frequently.
Benthin said a noticeable difference between the
membrane filtration system and Gates’ old direct sand
water treatment facility is the results in the finished
water.
When Sheri Simpson worked at Lowe’s, she was not
a fan of tap water.
She changed her mind when she went to work for
the city of Gates and saw its water filtration process.
“I used to buy bottled water until I started working
here and saw how clean those filters are,” Simpson
said.
“So I started just drinking tap water from the city. It
is amazing. It’s better than any bottled water.”
After a large rain storm, the river often flows a choc-
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Feb. 1, 1933 — May 30, 2018
Carolyn Sophie Von Flue, 85, passed away May 30,
2018. She was born in Elgin, Illinois, on Feb. 1, 1933.
She is survived by husband Arnold Von Flue; children
Timothy Von Flue of Lake Oswego, Michael (Sydney)
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With the previous sand system Benthin would have
to change doses in the chemicals he used to treat the
water and hope it would come out clear.
In Gates, the water always comes out of the filter
clear.
“Here you don’t worry about it,” Benthin said.
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