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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1981)
Ì SANDY (O í» ) POSI Thur» Odobwi 22 1981 (S x 2 around the county Landfill problems on area rivers unresolved by MU II U- I I* JUNES I’ost ( ortespondent Problem s with illegal landfills m the fhxxl plains of the Zigzag and Sandy Rivers “have not been solved,” ac cording to Walter Cate of the Code Compliance Section of the C lack am as County Department of Environmen tai Services Cate, whose office has been investigating the land fills since July, said in an in ter view .Monday that he has given the three property ow n ers resp o n sible William Steinharger Steven Sweilzer and Rav T h o rn b e rg , all of Ihxxiland until Del 2IÌ i to cornp'y He said that if the ipro hleins are not crrected by that tune, or unless the necessary permits are taken out, the three compliance eases “will be sent to the county commi ssioners to decide d they should 1lake legal action “ Cate said that be had spoken to all three property owners quite some time ago and felt confident th.it the necessary permits would lie taken out and the situation resolved lie said that 1,300 yards of till behind the Mt Hood Lions Club at Wemme, which Steinharger is respon sible lor. tiad to have some engineering work done and other organic wastes, as well as tires and other con (anim ated debris, to be removed from the site and deposited at an appropriate* site for such wastes ' In stead, according to Cate, more fill has been added The Rhododendron site along the Zigzag River, own ed by Steven Sweitzer. was determined to tie the biggest problem of all because of its potential impact on the river s fisheries, according to Jay M assey, a fish biologist with the state's Fish and Wildlife Commis sion Answers overdue on sewage spill investigation Sewage spill problems, both at the Rippling River resort in Welches and at Rhododendron, will lx* pur sued, according to Stan Skoko, Clackamas County commissioner Both sewage spills have been in the investigatory process for several months, but no answers have twen forthcoming “ We had p ro m ise d answers a long time ago,” Skoko said Monday . “ I'll see that we have the answers within the week ” In June of this year a pro blem was identified with the temporary sewage bolding tanks at Rippling River Dick Wixon, of the State Department of Environmen tai Quality, said that he eoi’ld Hot (It lei iimie if the greasehalls, toiletries and other byprixlucts from the re s o rt's six 5,000 gallon holding tanks, were from ac eidental spills or were deliberate dumpings Rhododendron In mid July, it was learned that a sanitation worker with the C la c k a m a s County Health D epartm ent, Bob Johnson, had discovered sewage in a creek behind the Dairy Queen restaurant in About that investigation, Jo h n M c In ty re of the Department of Environmen tai Services, said. “ If anyone says there is not a problem in Rhododendron that is false There is definitely a problem ” Mobile home fire investigation proves difficult Oregon fire officials have ruled that a trailer house fire on Or t 4 at the Hilltop Mobile Court near Eagle Creek was likely caused by an electrical overload Harry Barnett, of the state Eire Marshal's office, said the findings the investigation are inconclusive “There are no definite conclusions A previous fire in the trailer confusixl things for the in vestigator and the scene w as b u rn ed p re tty thoroughly,” he said “ We re saying that it was an accidental fire,” Barnett said Oregon State Police ar son investigators ruled out arson, he said Smoker's carelessness was ruled out as a possible cause “Trailers can tx* quite dit ficult because the material in them usually gets com pletely burned," Barnett said Matt Shields, chief of the Boring Eire Department, said the fire startl'd in the liv in g room n e a r an overslulted ( hair There was an extension cord with four or five things plugged into it near the ( hair, he said Boring fire crews battled the blaze which was reported at 4 15 a rn on Oct 4 Sue Harvey, 26, and her son Shane Smith, 5, died in the fire at 29200 SE Judd Road four miles south of here toward Eagle Creek Speed survey Boring topic The Boring Neighborhood Advisory Committee will hold its next meeting Oct 27 at 7 p m in the Boi ing Eire Station Attending the meeting will lx* Bernie Straight, a county traffic engineer, who will present the results of a speed survey recently completed along Richey Road and 282nd and 272nd Avenues Winston Kurth, deputy direc tor of the Department of En vironmental Services, will also lx1 present to discuss the pro p o sed s tr e e t and drainage improvements for Fairmont Drive The agenda also includes d isc u ssio n s of o th e r neighborhood improvement projects including communi ty identificatio n signs, downtown lighting, and d ra in a g e p ro b le m s on Church Road MOONLITE MADNESS Cate said that at this site also, even more dump truck loads of fill have been added He said his initial investiga lion re v e a le d that the Sweitzer property has had over 1,200 yards of fill dumped into the fhxxl plains “ Nobody has done anything up there," Cate said, “and I don’t know why All 1 know is that there has Ix-en continued filling when I ordered it to cease ' Cate said that the Thorn tx*rg site at the junction of Highway 26 and Crouse Lam* in Wemme. even though it has had 200 to 600yards of till removed, is still in violation He said that Thornberg had been told to either get a grading (x*rmit or remove the entire fill by Oct 1 Fail ing to do so is a violation of county ordinances Cate said that if the three landowners are turned over to the commissioners, that he feels they will aggressive ly deal with the situations Family Vision Care 10% Discount to Senior Citizens 65 and older. 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