Thurs.. Jon. 26, 1978 (Sec 1, SANDY (Ora.) POST - 9
Alder Creek Water Co., city,
lock horns in water battle
Sandy woman raped on Highway 26
A
24-year-old
Sandy
woman was raped last
Thursday evening by a man
who grabbed her from
behind and pulled her into a
brushy area while she was
walking beside Highway 26
about 10 miles east of Sandy.
Clackamas County Sheriff
Deputies said the woman told
them that she met the
suspect who was hitch
hiking, at about 5:45 p.m.
on the darkened highway.
The suspect was described
as being jn his early 20’s, 5-9
to 5-11 in height and between
135 and 140 pounds. She told
deputies that he had a “ very
slight build.”
The man had shoulder-
length dishwater blond hair,
a brown mustache and
medium-length sideburns.
Deputies said there are no
suspects,
but
an
in
vestigation of the incident is
continuing.
The City of Sandy and Alder Creek
Water Co. may lock horns in a legal
battle over the Alder Creek water
system.
Alder Creek Water Co. President Red
Bennett says he won’t sign a water
agreement the city council approved
last week.
“ There’s no way in the world we
could sign the thing,” Bennett told The
Post. “ We would have to subjugate our
rights to the city to do that and it would
be impossible to do.”
“ Why should he want to sign it,”
asked B e nn e tt’s a tto rn ey, B rian
O’Brian. “ The contract says the city
has no lia b ility —they can do anything
they want. There’s nothing in it for him
(Bennett).”
The agreement drawn up by Jack
Hammond, the c ity ’s attorney, allowed
for Alder Creek Water Co. to hook up to
Sandy’s water system during times
when maintenance on the c ity ’s dam or
intake muddies the Alder Creek supply.
The privately owned water company
has been hooked up to Sandy’s system
since high waters in November and
December washed out part of Bennett’s
water system. Bennett said he serves
approximately 300 people with water
from Alder Creek.
Sandy City Manager Paul Helton said
the action was taken because Bennett
has had more than enough time to put
his own lines in working order.
In approving the agreement Jan. 16,
the city stipulated that Bennett w ill not
be allowed to tap the c ity ’s line if he
refused to sign the contract within 10
days.
However, since that time Hammond
said Bennett had indicated that he was
going to clean out his own intake and
get off the c ity ’s line.
“ As long as he does that—at least for
the moment we don’t have any
problems,” Hammond said. “ Our only
recourse is to shut him off our line if he
doesn’t take some steps to put his own
line in operation.”
Bennett said his problems with the
Alder Creek line began last summer
when contractors for the city began
work to extend the c ity ’s water supply
to Alder Creek.
“ The situation up there has caused
people on the system an awful lot of
problems,” Bennett said.
Some homeowners in the area,
however, said that problems with Alder
Creek Water Co. started before the city
began work on the new line. “ I ’ve lived
here four years and it’s been a
problem,” said Nancy Johnson, who is
spearheading a task force of Alder
Creek Water Co. users who met last
week for the first time.
Approximately 40 people attended a
Jan. 18 meeting at the Forest Inn at
Alder Creek to discuss problems with
the water system.
Mrs. Johnson told The Post that some
residents are concerned with silt in the
water, health hazards, turbidity, low
water pressure and lack of main
tenance on the system She said the
task force w ill hold regular meetings
during the coming months to discuss
alternatives to solving the problems.
So far, she said, there has been a
strong interest in the task force.
Both Mrs. Johnson and Helton
blamed the problems of Alder Creek
Water Co. on Bennett, not the city.
“ The problems Alder Creek has had
in the past and are still having are
pertinent to their own system and not to
the fact that the City of Sandy is taking
water from Alder Creek,” Helton told
The Post.
“ We have not disturbed his system or
intake. A ll we have done by proper
engineering is to provide safe guards for
emergency situations or an intertie to
protect the flow of water in emergency
situations.”
Seasonal farm employment
falls after harvest
C la c k a m a s
C o u n ty ’ s
seasonal farm employment
fe ll s ig n ific a n tly between
October and November as
the filbert harvest came to
an end, according to State of
O re g o n
E m p lo y m e n t
Divisions officials.
T otal
n on -a gricultu ra l
wage and sa la ry em
ploym ent rem ained un
changed in the county during
this period, officials said.
The Oregon C ity local
office reported a 5 percent
rise in total employment
insurance benefit payments
issued to area claimants
between
October
and
November.
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Bennett took an opposite approach to
the problem
“ They’re mad at Red Bennett, a lot of
them ,” acknowledged the w ater
company president “ Maybe I should
have been a lot tougher on the city and
contractor.”
He said he had tried to cooperate with
the c ity ’s contractor. “ All that did was
make us look foolish in the long run ”
Bennett said he believes the com
p laints of the w ater users are
legitimate. “ They’ve got my support
I ’ll cooperate in any way possible This
does help us out in dealing with the city
of Sandy ’
He added:
“ I t ’s unfortunate that
they’re mad at me because I ’m the one
who’s helping out. We’ve got a heck of a
lot more satisfied customers than
dissatisfied.”
According to Bennett, there have
been more than 30 outages since the
city started work on the system.
Contractor for the c ity ’s project is
Stadeli Pump and Construction of
Silverton.
“ I ’m sure the State of Oregon w ill be
involved in this before it’s all over,”
said lawyer O’Brien, “ along with the
public u tility commissioner, state
watermaster, the court—you name it.”
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