SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JULY 2, 2016
SOS receives $5K grant from Chambers
Siuslaw Outreach Services
(SOS) received $5,000 grant
from
the
Eugene-based
Chambers Family Foundation.
The grant will be used for
vouchers for people in crisis or
emergency situations.
“We were really pleased to
receive this support, especially
since we have depleted our
emergency funds in recent
months and we have had a high
number of people seeking assis-
tance, especially families with
children,” said SOS Executive
Director David Wiegan.
Last year SOS provided 843
emergency vouchers for shelter,
prescriptions, utilities, food,
showers, laundry, transportation
and other basic needs.
Recipients are seniors, disabled,
homeless or experiencing a
financial or medical crisis. The
vouchers are redeemable at
local businesses.
Chambers Family Found-
ation was founded in 1999 to
build stronger communities and
support human needs.
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Roblan promotes septic loans
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State Sen. Arnie Roblan and
Oregon
Department
of
Environmental Quality (DEQ)
Senior Policy Advisor Karen
Tarnow met with concerned citi-
zens at the Florence Events
Center during one of two town
hall style meetings held on the
coast Monday.
Gov. Kate Brown signed
Roblan’s bi-partisan Senate Bill
1563 into law May 24. The bill
was created to provide low-
income families and small busi-
nesses with low-cost loans for
septic system repairs.
According to the Oregon
DEQ, approximately 6,000 sep-
tic systems fail every year in
Oregon.
In addition to potential pollu-
tion to lakes and rivers from
failed septic systems, Oregon
coastal lakes are seeing increas-
ing outbreaks of blue-green
algae blooms.
“For me this became a big
issue because almost all of our
coastal lakes have become blue-
green algae growing places,”
Roblan said. “Nitrates in the
water generally cause it. There
are arguments all the time about
whether it is from septic systems
or whether it is from fertilizer
they are putting on the forests.
To me it didn’t really matter.”
The initial bill was passed
with a budget of $250,000.
“It is pretty straightforward,”
Tarnow said. “It provides
$250,000 to DEQ. DEQ must
give away at least $200,000 in a
grant to an entity that is going to
develop an administered loan
program.”
Roblan said, “The $200,000
will be the little bit of money this
institution is going to have to
start loaning out to do repairs
and start fixing septic systems.
In my estimation we need
between $5 and $6 million over
time put into that program.”
According to Roblan, the
funds would come partly from
nonprofit organizations provid-
ing grant money and from
money authorized by the legisla-
PHOTOS BY JACK DAVIS/SIUSLAW NEWS
Sen. Arnie Roblan addresses local residents about septic
system repairs at the Florence Events Center on Monday,
June 27. The Florence town hall meeting was one of two
coastal town hall meetings Roblan held that day.
ture. He said the program was
modeled after one Washington
State has had for several years
that has interest rates tied to
household incomes, with lower
incomes receiving lower rates
and more generous pay back
terms.
The key to making the pro-
gram work is getting enough
funding to service enough loans
to take care of the problem.
“We have to put the pressure
on legislators and others to be
able to say this is important to
put resources into,” Roblan said.
“If you replace a system that
costs $20,000, with $200,000
you get to replace 10 of them.
We have 6,000 failed systems
per year. We have to figure out
how we get the money over the
next three to four years to fund
this program once it gets going.”
Roblan said the legislature
passed a law several years ago
that required all homes being
sold with a septic system must
be able to prove the system is
working. This program can help
offset the cost of repairing and
maintaining those septic sys-
tems.
Dunes City recently passed a
septic system ordinance requir-
ing residents to inspect their sys-
tems every five years and to
repair any system that did not
pass the required test. This was
passed in order to prevent faulty
septic systems from leaking
effluence into local lakes.
Dunes City Mayor Rebecca
Ruede, who attended the town
hall meeting said, “On behalf of
Dunes City, we are especially
happy to learn of Senate Bill
1563. The bill appears to address
the question of ‘What about
those who simply cannot afford
to comply with our septic ordi-
nance?’”
Tarnow said, “We are hoping
to get the Request For Proposal
out in July. I’m guessing it will
be a 30-day period for people to
put bids in, and then it should go
pretty quickly. We should have a
contract (with a lender) in place
this fall.”
Roblan said with just
$200,000 initially available to
loan, the effectiveness of the
program will best be evaluated
by selecting a single community
to use as a test market.
“The coast is one of the areas
they will look at, not the whole
coast, but a select place,” he
said. “It could be around
Tenmile Lake, or it could be
around Devils Lake.”
Ruede hopes that Dunes City
might make the short list.
“Dunes City is one of many
small towns that has grappled
over the affordability issue sur-
rounding septic maintenance.
After all, it’s our precious water
that is at stake,” she said.
Deadwood man dies in motorcycle accident
Oregon State Police (OSP)
report that Richard F. Araujo,
68, of Deadwood, died in a
collision between a motorcy-
cle and pickup truck on
Highway 36 on Thursday.
On June 30 at 3:30 p.m.,
OSP troopers and emergency
personnel responded to the
report of a crash near
Deadwood involving a motor-
cycle and a pickup on
Highway 36 near milepost 12.
Preliminary investigation
indicates that Araujo’s 1992
Harley Davidson motorcycle
was traveling westbound on
Highway 36 when it failed to
negotiate a corner, crossing
the centerline and sideswiping
an eastbound 2007 Dodge
pickup.
The motorcycle and rider
came to rest in the north ditch
after the collision. Araujo was
pronounced deceased at the
scene.
The driver of the Dodge,
Elaine R. Beers, 63, of
Swisshome, was not injured.
The roadway was restricted
to one lane for approximately
three and a half hours.
OSP was assisted on scene
by the Oregon Department of
Transportation and Western
Lane Ambulance.
Speed is being investigated
as a contributing factor in the
crash. More information will
be released as it becomes avail-
able.
This marks the fourth fatal
motorcycle crash on Oregon’s
highways in less than a week.
For information on motorcy-
cle
safety,
visit
oregon.gov/ODOT/TS/pages.
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