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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1982)
ip S R W PORTLANO, f 0 06 U.S. Postage Bulk Rate Permit No. 2 Warm Springs, O R ' OR 9 7 2 0 5 VOL. 7 NO. 5 WARM SPRINGS. OREGON 97761 Voters approve referendum items T ribal voters overw hel mingly approved the credit and housing referendums presented February 25. A total of 448 votes were counted. 146 of those were absentee ballots. The credit referendum drew 387 yes votes and 58 no votes. The housing referendum had 355 yes votes and 89 no votes. Two million dollars, have been appropriated to the tribal credit departm ent for the purpose of lending to eligible tribal members for auto, business, personal or housing. loans. The last referendum to allocate funds to credit was in 1978. The department is not broke but funds have been committed to a variety of projects, primarily homes and First signs of spring business loans. Crocuses indicate that spring is just around the corner. It won’t be long before the few hours of Prior to the referendum it sunshine seen daily w id be extended into days o f warmth with even more flowers popping up. was explained that credit Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk collects $200,000 monthly in payment which are relent to borrowers. Interest income is used to pay all credit salaries and expenses. Just under 4% of the total amount of loans arc Delays plague water project, ASC under $500/day penalty by Sandy Rangila Although Deschutes water is now flo w in g fro m th e treatment plant at Dry Creek, through the lineand into Tewee Butte reservoir, there is little promise of it reaching local homes until possibly late April. The Deschutes Domestic Water System project has been bedeviled with delays and it is unclear just exactly where the probleip lies. It was supposed to have been completed by February 4, but revised schedule revisions continue to be revised, according to Ed Manion, Community Services Manager for the Tribes. Manion reported this week th a t, since Feb. 4, the contractor, A.S.C. Construc tors, has been under a $500 a day penalty for not completing the project on time. It was impossible to pin project manager Ron Hall down as to when he thought the system would be in operation. “You just can’t foresee all the little unknown problems that might come up on such a big project as this,” he said in a phone interview. One of those problems occurred last week when thé March 12,1982 past due. The housing referendum appropriated a $2 million r e v o lv in g h o u s in g a n d subdivision fund. The purpose of such a fund will create an on going program to allow monej from the sales of tribally buih homes to be re-used for new home construction and to develop subdivision homesites when federal funds aren’t available. The revolving housing fund is not to be used for mobile homes, however, started homes (small two-bedroom homes) can be built through the revolving fund. Mobile homes and individually built homes will still be financed through tribal credit. I 'he proposed location of the first 2()-home subdivision will be near Wolf Point east of Eagle Butte and Kah-Nee-Ta. Each homesite will be two acres or larger and will be supplied by the new domsetic water system. It is proposed that 10 starter homes will also be built in 1982. line to the Tewee Butte more water needs to be reservoir “blew out.” The line pumped). separated and water leaked “That’s baloney,” Manion out. said. “If that’s a problem they Hall claimed it was a design should have told us about it flaw. He said that those are before. I first heard it today restrained lines and that they (Mar. 10) and the engineer only don’t call for thrust blocks (big two weeks ago.” Although the hunks of concrete poured Tribes won’t accept anything where the pipes form corners). less than the automatic system After the blow out, two thrust they ordered and are paying blocks were added at a four- for, the system can be operated day loss in time and at manually. considerable expense. Further, Manion said he had Manion agreed that the lines just learned on Wednesday, don’t require thrust blocks, but March 10, after talking with he said A.S.C. welded the lines Bob Grace of STRAAM “and it didn’t hold. They didn’t Engineers, Inc. and Ron Hall, trust their weld so they put in that two of the component thrust blocks. We’re (the control parts for the automatic Tribes) not going to pay for control system are not here, those blocks,” he said. one of which was just ordered The whole system is designed the past day or so. He said it to operate at high pressure, 375 would probably take three to pounds per square inch, and four weeks to get to the site, the lines are designed for that then it has to be installed and type of system , M anion tested. explained. Generally, Hall blames the Hall said that what’s really d e la y s “ on e x te n u a tin g holding things up is that they’re c i r c u m s t a n c e s ; ’’ f a c to r y Atlyeh visits Central Oregon waiting on the telephone and shortages, inclement weather power company to install their and design changes. lines so that A.S.C. can hook Manion said he no longer up their monitoring systems. holds out any hopes of the Governor Victor Atiyeh greets Irene Towe at a luncheon held in (The monitoring system lets project being completed this Madras during A tiyeh’s visit to Central Oregon. Related story on Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk you know the water level in the month. His best guess, a t this PaSe tanks. It signals the plant when ’ pdinf, iis late April.
