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The causes of poverty, substance abuse
or alcoholism, transcend geography and
race from Appalachia to Detroit to Los
Angeles. People having children they can’t
afford, failing to value education, spending
money on tobacco and drugs, and the fail-
ure or inability to break a family history of
dysfunction all contribute.
The events leading to Payne’s death
were caused by his use of meth and An-
gie Payne having to call for help.
Greg Williams
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Regarding the controversy about
EWEB’s plan for two new large water
reservoirs on its 11 acre property in the
Eugene south hills known as Patterson
Hill: Opposition is mainly from neigh-
boring residents, which is understand-
able, as they have long enjoyed a beau-
tiful park in their backyards virtually
unknown to the general public.
We endured the construction of a new
water reservoir EWEB and their contrac-
tors built several years ago about 200
feet from our front door. We can con-
firm that it is not pleasant to live next to
a large construction project with heavy
equipment, traffic, noise, dust and gen-
eral disruption. It would be better for
the Patterson Hill neighbors to endure
this disruption over two to three years
only once, build both reservoirs and be
done, rather than two to three years now,
then another two to three years within
the next decade. The cost savings from
building both at once will benefit the
entire community of ratepayers, so it
seems a win-win for both the Patterson
Hill neighbors and the community.
In our case, we thought it only fair for
us to endure a couple of years of turmoil
for the privilege of having one of the best
municipal water supplies in the world.
It would seem the height of selfishness
to try to deny the entire community the
benefit of a safe, plentiful and reliable wa-
ter supply so you can have your own free
quiet backyard parkland in perpetuity.
Alexandre Lockfeld
Joanne Carlson
Eugene
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DEATH FROM A
THOUSAND CUTS
The board of the Southwest Hills
Neighborhood Association, SHiNA, voted
(7-0) July 6 to oppose EWEB’s proposed
40th and Patterson water project until
and only if EWEB can better demonstrate
need: need to build two massive reservoirs
rather than one, need to clear cut more
than two acres mature Eugene forest.
But the front page Register-Guard
story 7/18 and an EW letter 7/22 have
disparaged close-by neighbors as
“NIMBYs” who oppose the larger pub-
lic good. Our SHiNA neighborhood, I
point out, is more than a mile from the
proposed project. The site is not in our
visual backyard, traffic backyard, etc.
The emerald city Eugene, however, is
suffering death from a thousand cuts to
backyard forests.
The grove of large conifer trees in
question, about 60 percent water by
weight, sequesters carbon and counters
climate change. The grove helps cool all of
Eugene on hot days, helps clean the air of
pollutants, retards the fast spread of wild-
fire, as well as contributing other civic val-
ues including aesthetic value and wildlife
habitat, notably for Monarch butterflies.
The Eugene Climate Ordinance and
Climate Action Plan — CAP2.0 — calls
for 30 percent minimum forest canopy.
But Eugene is less than 21 percent, going
backward as one small woodlot after an-
other is cut for housing, roads, utilities,
better living room views.
Councilor Emily Semple and Council-
or Matt Keating have proposed a stron-
ger Eugene tree protection ordinance,
an important step to protect our trees.
Ralph McDonald
SHiNA Co-Chair
Eugene
EWEB HAS PLANNED
FOR THE FUTURE
EWEB is the best provider of any
service that I’ve ever had. I’ve been a
customer since 1974. One hundred per-
cent of the time when I turn on the fau-
cet, good, safe water comes out. Not one
interruption of service in all of these
years! Electric service is nearly as reli-
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able, despite a few outages that were the
result of acts of nature.
EWEB is a public agency run by an
elected board of volunteers. They have
earned our trust. If they think we need
new water reservoirs in south Eugene,
where I live, I will take their word for it.
EWEB purchased a site decades ago for
this purpose. They planned for the fu-
ture. The future is now. Thanks, EWEB!
Richie Weinman
Eugene
TIME TO TALK ABOUT
URBAN FIRE RISKS
If the last few years, especially 2020,
have taught us anything, it is that we
need to start having serious conversa-
tions about the risks our community
faces from a major urban fire. On July
10, 2021, the Eugene/Springfield Fire
Department was called to put out three
separate fires on the south side of Skin-
ner’s Butte. It took them 45 minutes
and two trees were a total loss. What if it
hadn’t gone quite so well?
That fire didn’t just burn some grass
and trees. It heightened my alarm at the
potential loss of Eugene’s first Historic
District that is situated mere feet from the
edge of that fire. The Campbell House (c
1892), the Mims House (c 1870), and Shel-
ton McMurphey Johnson House (1888)
are just a few of those historic buildings
that could be lost if a fire got out of control
in the heart of downtown Eugene.
Eugene has spent a lot of time work-
ing on keeping the potential fire haz-
ards at bay, including banning fireworks
in certain parts of town. However, I be-
lieve it’s time to start talking to all of
our neighbors about what they can do
to help with this effort. How can urban
homeowners work on their defensible
space around their property? This is not
just a rural issue. We all need to work in
our own backyards.
I encourage you to call your city coun-
selor or neighborhood association. Ask
if they know how we can work on defen-
sible space in Eugene.
Leah Murray
Executive Director
Shelton McMurphey Johnson House
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