BUSINESS
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Stephen Bisnett
takes new role in
family business
PENDLETON — Bisnett
Insurance announced in a
written statement Stephen
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president of large commer-
cial and agriculture, a new
position for the agency.
Kent Bergstedt will
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of personal lines and small
business, and Keith Black-
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of operations.
Bisnett graduated from
Pendleton High School in
2001 and continued education
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where he graduated in 2006
with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in business administra-
tion. He went on to become
an integral part of the success
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location since 2007.
Stephen Bisnett learned
the insurance business under
his father, Roger Bisnett,
founder of Bisnett Insurance,
the statement said, and the
junior Bisnett said he enjoys
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The statement also
said Stephen Bisnett will
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locations.
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operator $3,300
HERMISTON — Oregon
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of a wastewater system
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$3,300 for water pollution.
The Oregon Department
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Quality recently reported
it penalized Pliska
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at the onsite wastewater
treatment and disposal
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& Suites, 77514 Highway
207, Hermiston, the DEQ
asserted in a written
East Oregonian
statement
Pliska discharged
sewage water that exceeded
permitted limits of nitrate
and nitrogen on multiple
occasions in 2013 and 2014.
The motel is in the Lower
Umatilla Groundwater
Management Area, a
designation DEQ declared
in 1990 because nitrate-
nitrogen concentrations in
many area groundwater
samples exceeded the
federal safe drinking water
standard of 10 micgrograms
per liter. The 1997
Groundwater Management
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Plan set a goal to bring the
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micrograms per liter.
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drinking water can cause
harmful health effects, the
DEQ reported, especially in
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of nitrate-nitrogen in surface
water can cause blooms of
aquatic plants and algae that
can harm aquatic life.
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failed to measure the depth
of the wastewater lagoon
on a weekly basis, but the
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company for that permit
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appealed the penalty.
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