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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
Seaside taps in on cleaner water
City project
designed to
make treating
public water
more effective,
less expensive
‘What did you think of the
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“I just wish they’d go back where
they came from. It never used to
take a half hour to get from the
middle of Astoria to Safeway.”
Sue Pritchard, Astoria
“It’s been nuts. It’s still nuts.
But good for the community mon-
ey-wise, I assume.”
Liz McKerren, Astoria
“We moved here to get away
from the traf¿ c, and it’s ... busy. But
a necessary evil.”
Sharleen Zuern, Astoria
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Tonight
Mainly clear this
evening; low clouds
late
49°
Thursday
Oregon Weather
Shown is
tomorrow’s
weather.
Temperatures
are tonight’s
lows and
tomorrow’s
highs
Portland
51/76
Corvallis
45/74
Eugene
44/75
Salem
47/76
Albany
45/74
Ontario
51/73
Bend
40/70
Friday
Mostly cloudy
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Mostly cloudy with
a shower in spots
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66°
50°
Saturday
47°
Sunday
Sunny and nice
67°
65°
51°
Pleasant with
plenty of sunshine
73°
50°
Almanac
Sun and Moon
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High ........................................... 69°
Low ............................................ 45°
Normal high ............................... 65°
Normal low ................................. 47°
Precipitation
Yesterday ................................ 0.00"
Month to date .......................... 2.13"
Normal month to date ............. 2.04"
Year to date ........................... 31.24"
Normal year to date .............. 40.14"
Sunset tonight .................. 6:58 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ............. 7:13 a.m.
Moonrise today ................ 8:53 p.m.
Moonset today ............... 10:20 a.m.
Regional Cities
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Today
Hi Lo W
80 37 s
73 40 s
64 50 s
75 44 s
62 52 pc
75 37 s
82 51 s
60 49 pc
64 49 pc
Hi
69
70
63
75
62
71
79
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64
Hi
70
60
61
83
65
63
94
34
87
66
67
97
85
75
91
67
84
62
73
60
68
86
69
68
62
Thu.
Lo W
60 sh
48 r
49 s
54 pc
43 pc
45 s
68 s
26 pc
76 s
47 s
45 pc
70 pc
66 pc
54 s
76 pc
53 pc
65 s
54 r
50 pc
55 r
48 s
58 pc
55 c
52 pc
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National Cities
Today
City
Hi Lo W
Atlanta
81 64 t
Boston
74 54 r
Chicago
62 50 pc
Denver
80 54 pc
Des Moines
67 43 s
Detroit
66 46 s
El Paso
92 65 s
Fairbanks
35 23 sf
Honolulu
87 76 s
Indianapolis
71 48 pc
Kansas City
69 45 s
Las Vegas
101 74 s
Los Angeles
89 68 s
Memphis
78 60 pc
Miami
89 76
t
Nashville
72 59 sh
New Orleans
87 71 pc
New York
76 58 r
Oklahoma City 81 58 s
Philadelphia
78 58 c
St. Louis
72 51 pc
Salt Lake City
85 62 pc
San Francisco
70 58 pc
Seattle
71 51 s
Washington, DC 80 57 c
Last
New
First
Full
Oct 4
Oct 12
Oct 20
Oct 27
Under the Sky
Thu.
Lo W
39 s
39 s
50 s
44 pc
52 c
35 s
48 s
48 pc
50 pc
City
Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Vancouver
Yakima
Today
Hi Lo W
72 45 s
76 51 s
76 51 s
77 50 s
76 47 s
64 51 pc
78 50 s
73 48 s
82 44 s
Hi
71
73
76
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75
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83
Thu.
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46 pc
50 s
52 pc
48 pc
46 pc
52 pc
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49 pc
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Tonight's Sky: In the northeast, Cassiopeia,
Queen of Ethiopia, appears with fi ve, bright stars
forming a fl ying "W" or "M."
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Tomorrow’s Tides
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
High
4:25 a.m. 8.1 ft.
4:14 p.m. 9.2 ft.
Time
10:15 a.m.
11:04 p.m.
Low
0.9 ft.
-1.0 ft.
Tomorrow’s National Weather
Cold
Warm
Showers
T-Storms
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-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
Rain
Flurries
Snow
Ice
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands
are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures are given for selected cities.
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Sept. 8, 2015
HAWKINS, Nicole and
Kevin Jr., of Astoria, a girl,
Savannah Noelle Hawkins,
born at Columbia Memorial
Hospital in Astoria. Older sib-
lings are Amaya, Elijah and
Layla Hawkins. Grandparents
are Ray and Marie Hansmei-
er of Warrenton and Pam and
Kevin Hawkins of Astoria.
Sept. 20, 2015
SCHLIP, Laura, and SUT-
TON, Josh, of Knappa, a boy,
Corbin Robert Sutton, born at
Columbia Memorial Hospital.
Grandparents are Timothy D.
Schlip of Knappa, Shellie and
Marc O’Connor of Astoria,
and Darrell and Bonnie Sut-
ton of Warrenton.
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Deaths
Sept. 22, 2015
DANIELOVICH, Nick, 101, of San Pe-
dro, California, formerly of Astoria, died in
San Pedro. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary in As-
toria is in charge of the arrangements.
Sept. 26, 2015
LANDWEHR, Lisa, 48, of Astoria, died
Saturday, Oct. 3
HANNULA, Irene M. —
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Sept. 27, 2015
DeGANDI, Bonita Louise “Bonnie,” 82,
of Seaside, died in Seaside. Hughes-Ransom
Mortuary is in charge of the arrangements.
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Astoria
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Gallons of water
The water treatment plant’s
By KATHERINE
capacity is about 4 million
LACAZE
gallons per day. McKevitt
EO Media Group
Submitted Photo
projects the plant will need ex-
The Seaside Public Works Department contracted with pansion in the future, so the fa-
SEASIDE — Did you Bergerson Construction of Astoria to install a new variable cility site was designed to add
know the way Seaside drink- intake system at the Peterson Point r eservoir for raw water. more treatment capacity when
needed.
ing water comes into your
From river to tap
From the treatment plant,
home is completely different
away from the edge and the
Seaside’s main source for GLUHFWLQÀXHQFHRIUDZXQWUHDW WKH ZDWHU ÀRZV E\ JUDYLW\ WR
than it was two months ago?
The $83,000 variable in- water is the south fork of the ed water. The open end of the two smaller enclosed reser-
take system installed in August 1HFDQLFXP5LYHUZKLFKÀRZV pipe is surrounded by a screen voirs — one by the Peterson
at the Peterson Point Reservoir by gravity to Peterson Point , WRSUHYHQWODUJHUGHEULVDQG¿VK Point reservoir to the south
of Seaside and a north reser-
carries water to the city’s treat- a 50-million -gallon raw wa- from entering the system.
PHQWSODQWEHIRUHWKHWDSÀRZV ter reservoir. The secondary
The system is attached to voir — “and everywhere in
for customers. The new sys- source is a pump station that D VLPSOH ÀRDW WKDW FDQ VHW WKH between,” as it is distributed to
tem reduces the use of chem- draws from the main stem of depth of the screen, allowing public water users, McKevitt
icals and requires less labor to the river, where the water qual- Public Works to pull water said.
The south reservoir holds
ity is worse.
maintain.
from various levels, depending
Since the late 1990s, water RQ IDFWRUV LQÀXHQFLQJ WKH ZD about 4 million gallons of
The transition went “ex-
tremely well with no interrup- KDV ÀRZHG IURP WKH 3HWHUVRQ ter quality, McKevitt said. For water and the north reservoir
tion of service to the citizens Point r eservoir to the treatment instance, the lake often warms holds 2.6 million gallons.
Because Seaside’s perma-
of Seaside,” John McKevitt, plant through a stationary in- some time between noon and
the city’s water foreman said. take screen at a depth of about 2 p.m., causing the water to ro- nent population of approxi-
“We realized seamless coordi- 30 feet. Over the years, the de- tate and stirring up organisms. mately 6,100 people increases
nation and scheduling for the partment discovered high lev- Calculating those types of fac- seasonally, the distribution
els of sediment in the water as tors, the department will know system is capable of serving the
project.”
Crews now have a better it entered the treatment plant.
where to set the screen to in- larger tourist-based population.
Average demand for water
The city hired McKevitt take the cleanest water — “the
starting product to work with
during the week is about 1.8
during the treatment process, about two years ago primarily sweet spot,” he said.
he said, ultimately resulting in to “look at the system and help
The goal, McKevitt added, million to 2 million gallons per
lower annual operating costs. with it,” he said.
is to provide the treatment plant day. During busy weekends,
McKevitt engineered a new “as consistent a quality of wa- the demand can jump to more
“Our objective is to give you
system moving the intake to ter as possible year-round” so than 3.5 million gallons per
crystal clear water, ” he said.
the middle of the reservoir, crews won’t have to “monkey day.
ACCUWEATHER FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
Astoria 5-Day Forecast
with the chemicals” as much,
reducing manpower and ex-
penses. Customers will not
taste a difference in their wa-
ter, but the work and chemical
product needed to achieve the
acceptable water quality will be
reduced.
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TRACHSEL, Steven James
— Celebration of life from 1 to
5 p.m., Seaside American Le-
gion, 1315 Broadway, Seaside.
Oreskovich, 24, Tacoma,
Washington , for two counts
of second-degree burglary,
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and two counts of criminal
trespass at 193 Marine Drive.
THURSDAY
Main Ave., Warrenton.
Northwest Oregon Hous-
Seaside Parks Advisory
ing Authority Board, 10 Committee,SP&LW\+DOO
a.m., annual meeting, fol- 989 Broadway.
lowed by regular monthly
MONDAY
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Youngs River Lewis &
Clark Water District Board,
6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway
101 Business.
Astoria City Council,
p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane
St.
On the record
Burglary
• At 9:08 p.m. Monday, As-
toria Police arrested Michael
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