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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, January 4, 2006
DEQ penalties reaching high figures
Twenty-one penalties
totaling $739,733 during
November -- the largest
monthly total recorded this
year -- were assessed by the
Oregon Department of En-
vironmental Quality (DEQ).
Through November,
DEQ issued 163 penalties
totaling nearly $2.3 million,
already surpassing total pen-
alties levied during 2004.
In Grants Pass, DEQ
issued a $70,611 penalty to
the operators of Pine Villa
Mobile Home Park, 3381
Rogue River Hwy.
DEQ issued the penalty
for “illegally discharging
untreated or partially treated
sewage onto the ground sur-
face of the property during
the past four years, threaten-
ing public health and the
environment.”
Park operators Richard
Henry Hyde and his two
daughters, Mary M. Hyde
and Martha Marie Hyde, all
of Grants Pass, are responsi-
ble for maintaining, repair-
ing and replacing the faulty
onsite septic system for 26
dwelling units.
During August 2001,
DEQ issued a Notice of
Noncompliance, and in Au-
gust 2002 the operators sub-
mitted plans for a biological
wastewater treatment sys-
tem to be constructed begin-
ning July 2004.
DEQ approved the plan
and issued the Hydes a Wa-
ter Pollution Control Facili-
ties permit. However, the
system has not been con-
structed, and sewage has
continued to surface.
As part of the penalty,
DEQ is ordering the Hydes
to immediately cease dis-
charging sewage onto the
property, complete construc-
tion of the wastewater treat-
ment system, and regularly
pump all existing sewage
disposal systems on the
property as necessary.
Additionally, DEQ
fined Grants Pass resident
Ronald Lee Eells $4,509.
The penalty is com-
prised of $1,625 for open
burning of prohibited mate-
rial including vinyl flooring,
electrical wiring and house-
hold garbage at 4435 Fish
Hatchery Road, said DEQ;
and $2,884 for operating
and maintaining a waste
disposal site.
The month’s largest
penalty was issued Nov. 21,
to the city of Portland, for
more than five dozen sepa-
rate discharges of raw sew-
age into the Willamette and
Columbia rivers, plus their
tributaries, from March
2001 to November 2005.
FIFTEEN ILLLINOIS VALLEY Fire District (IVFD) firefighters responded to a 10:02
p.m. alarm Friday, Dec. 30 at 9877 Takilma Road. The small structure, which ap-
peared to be someone’s residence, was fully involved in flames. No one was at
home, and access to the building was difficult. No cause was determined. (Photo by
Dale & Elaine Sandberg/IVFD photographers)
Steve Lyons
wishes you a
from
Rachel Goodman, L.M.T.
New Year’s Resolution
I will take better care of my health.
I will be good to myself.
Happy, Healthy
New Year!
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Prosperous
New Year!
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592-3181
592-6947
Happy New Year
from
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592-4222 or 592-2892
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from
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wish you a
Very Happy New Year!
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All the best in ‘06
from
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Happy New Year from
Siskiyou Community
Health Center
A Happy & Prosperous
New Year
from the
Kerbyville Museum Directors
“See you when we reopen in March.”