WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny
A passing
afternoon shower
68° 40°
57° 39°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
A stray shower in
the afternoon
Today
SATURDAY
Mostly sunny
Some sun with a
shower or two
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
57° 39°
52° 36°
58° 39°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
61° 40°
68° 41°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
66°
67°
90° (1934)
33°
42°
23° (1916)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.07"
0.28"
12.36"
8.26"
9.22"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
65°
68°
86° (1934)
0.00"
0.03"
0.15"
7.04"
5.57"
6.71"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 19
Bend
64/30
Burns
67/26
7:05 a.m.
6:18 p.m.
10:15 p.m.
12:38 p.m.
First
Full
Oct 27
Nov 3
Caldwell
69/44
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Hi
57
65
64
61
67
62
61
66
68
68
67
65
63
71
56
61
69
69
68
59
66
61
62
64
59
70
65
Lo
42
30
30
45
26
35
40
39
41
36
27
37
35
39
43
45
42
39
40
43
28
42
38
33
45
43
33
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
57
54
50
59
51
51
56
56
61
51
50
53
49
60
55
59
61
61
57
57
51
58
51
48
56
59
59
Lo
43
25
27
44
17
31
39
38
40
33
21
33
33
37
44
44
33
37
39
43
24
43
35
31
44
42
30
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
52
92
72
65
75
49
64
74
78
69
79
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
39
83
58
55
56
40
52
52
59
65
70
W
sh
t
s
c
pc
c
c
pc
c
c
s
Wed.
Hi
62
93
74
64
71
47
67
74
69
75
77
Lo
41
80
57
49
54
44
52
54
49
66
70
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WINDS
Medford
71/39
PRECIPITATION
Oct 12
John Day
68/36
Ontario
69/42
32°
40°
23° (1931)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Albany
61/42
Eugene
61/40
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
62° 38°
Spokane
Wenatchee
62/38
59/37
Tacoma
Moses
58/39
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 64/36
64/38
58/44
58/38
65/33
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
57/44
70/43 Lewiston
70/42
Astoria
70/43
57/42
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
59/43
Pendleton 62/35
The Dalles 68/41
68/40
64/44
La Grande
Salem
65/37
61/42
Corvallis
60/40
HIGH
57° 36°
Seattle
57/44
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
60° 41°
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
67/27
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight with a shower in spots.
Cascades: Clouds breaking at times for
some sunshine today; a couple of showers
across the north.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
Cold in the interior mountains; pleasant at
the coast.
Western Washington: A shower in spots
today. Variable cloudiness in central parts;
partly sunny elsewhere.
Wednesday
WSW 8-16
WSW 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today. A
couple of showers, but dry in the south;
cooler across the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today; pleasant and warmer in the south.
Today
WSW 7-14
WSW 7-14
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-0s
0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will hold over the Southeastern states
today. Much of the Northeast and Plains will be dry and cooler. Much of the West will be
dry, except for showers in the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 98° in Zapata, Texas
Low 1° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
63
86
81
82
64
83
69
78
85
84
66
76
72
56
73
72
43
61
87
81
78
88
50
76
82
85
Lo
45
72
66
62
41
70
45
58
72
66
56
60
51
33
53
53
33
35
73
62
60
71
39
58
49
60
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Wed.
Hi
73
86
74
75
68
85
57
66
86
82
64
69
76
67
62
83
41
61
88
82
68
87
59
87
76
77
Lo
52
68
62
58
39
60
33
52
72
56
55
59
56
44
52
60
31
46
76
64
54
70
44
61
50
58
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pc
c
c
sh
pc
pc
c
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r
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sn
s
t
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pc
pc
s
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pc
pc
Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
80
89
89
64
56
83
88
80
59
46
83
92
76
81
83
61
73
84
77
68
77
74
57
90
83
50
Lo
63
56
79
54
41
65
75
62
40
37
64
70
53
58
70
35
43
49
51
48
62
53
44
65
68
35
Wed.
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Hi
72
76
88
63
61
79
88
72
68
59
76
96
64
71
84
71
68
75
65
75
75
70
55
95
77
67
Lo
57
54
77
55
50
53
73
56
48
43
61
67
43
51
67
42
33
48
55
45
62
51
43
63
64
47
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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trails in the gorge won’t open until spring and some may not open for a year or two.
The fire erupted Sept. 2 and has burned more than 75 square miles. It continues
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SALEM (AP) — Author-
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The two car crash
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Sunday when a Land Rover
driven by Favian R. Garcia,
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with a Buick Century head-
on, the Oregon State Police
said Monday. The Land
Rover was heading north,
and the Buick was heading
south. The two cars were
negotiating a corner when
they crashed.
The Buick was driven by
Lisette Medrano-Perez, 25,
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excluded from negotiations.
Wheeler said in contrast to
what the EPA told the public
was supposed to happen
next at Portland Harbor, “the
draft work plan reopens and
reanalyzes decisions that
were already made through
a lengthy and intensive
process.”
The existing cleanup plan
doesn’t require repeating
investigations and studies,
Wheeler argued.
“We appreciate and share
the EPA’s goal to move
implementation
forward
as quickly as possible,” he
wrote, “but fear that the
objectives described by DEQ
in the draft agreement could
steer the site off-course and
even take implementation
backward.”
It’s unclear which of the
dozens of potentially respon-
sible parties are included
in the agreement. The EPA
has yet to comment on the
purpose of the agreement and
who is involved.
Travis Williams, execu-
tive director of Willamette
Riverkeeper, said his group
and others are looking into
whether the agreement is
legal, but it seems to be “on
the very edge of legality”
from what he’s seen so far.
“I think a lot of us had
concerns about the Trump
administration with regard to
Superfund, and if these letters
reflect what is going on in
this process it is exceedingly
concerning for anybody who
cares about the fate of the
Willamette River,” he said.
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The Trump administra-
tion has a new plan for the
Portland Harbor Superfund
site that Oregon officials
say could reverse progress
toward cleaning up toxic
pollution in the Willamette
River.
Oregon environmental
regulators and officials with
the city of Portland have sent
letters to the U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency
expressing their concerns
about a draft agreement
between the EPA and some
of the companies responsible
for cleaning up the site.
The agreement would
require redoing complicated
environmental studies and
investigations, they say,
which would delay a process
that has already taken more
than 16 years.
Furthermore, they say the
EPA left key state and tribal
leaders out of the negotia-
tions and may have violated
previous agreements.
Just before President
Donald Trump took office
this year, the EPA released a
plan calling for a $1 billion
cleanup involving dredging
and covering contaminated
soil along a 10-mile stretch of
the Willamette River known
as the Portland Harbor
Superfund site.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
released a statement Monday
morning calling the new
agreement “a significant
setback” to those cleanup
plans that could have impacts
on Oregon’s economy and
the long-term health of the
environment.
“We must move forward
with the cleanup of the Port-
land Harbor, but the federal
administration’s latest direc-
tion to the EPA undermines
the progress we’ve made,”
she said. “I urge the EPA to
honor its commitment to
work collaboratively and
transparently with the state,
city, and all responsible
parties that have long worked
toward a thorough and
cost-effective clean up of the
Portland Harbor.”
In a letter sent Thursday,
Oregon Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality Director
Richard Whitman told the
EPA that after seeing a draft
of an unexpected new agree-
ment last week, his agency
has “significant concerns”
about how it was developed
and the plans it lays out.
The agreement appears to
be designed to question the
underpinning of the clean-up
plan completed under the
Obama administration, he
wrote, “potentially leading to
significant additional delays
in the implementation of any
remedy.”
He threatened to file a
dispute unless the agency
includes the state in a formal
consultation.
Portland Mayor Ted
Wheeler sent a letter Friday
echoing the DEQ’s concerns
and telling the EPA that the
city is “deeply troubled”
that key stakeholders were
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