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128TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 68
FLORENCE, OREGON
SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
Florence,
Yachats bus
line begins
Sept. 4
Sharing the harvest
By Jared Anderson
Siuslaw News
After years of deliberations,
planning and delays, the Flor-
ence-Yachats Connector bus
will finally be up and running
starting Tuesday, Sept. 4. The
route begins in Florence with
a pickup at Grocery Outlet,
makes a stop at Carl G. Wash-
burne Memorial State Park
and ends up at the Little Log
Church in Yachats.
“This is the last gap of the
Oregon coast to be filled with
public transportation,” said
Michelle Haring, co-owner
of River Cities Taxi and the
Rhody Express. The compa-
ny will be running the route
in conjunction with Lane
Transit District (LTD), which
is funding and planning the
project.
See BUS page 8A
Free OHV
safety class
offered
today
By Mark Brennan
Siuslaw News
The Oregon Dunes Nation-
al Recreation Area (ODNRA)
stretches approximately 40
miles from the Siuslaw River
to the Coos River in North
Bend. The dunes are part of
the Siuslaw National Forest
and administered by the Unit-
ed States Forest Service.
The ODNRA is the largest
expanse of coastal dunes in
North America, with some
rising hundreds of feet above
the sea. In 1972, Congress
designated nearly 32,000
acres of the Siuslaw National
Forest as a natural recreation
area in order to recognize and
protect this special place.
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Quail Ridge Farms’ Nemesio Nieto, manager of the fresh produce booth on the Siuslaw Port’s boardwalk, helps to load vegetables into the delivery
van for Florence Food Share. David Montes, Director of Food Share, says the contributions from the farm, located in Alpine Ridge, have a very
positive impact on his clients. “Quail Ridge Farms has been a long-term supporter of Food Share by donating fruits and vegetables,” he said. In
August alone, Quail Ridge Farms donated over 350 lbs of produce. We look forward to working side-by-side with our partners, like Quail Ridge
Farms, to meet the need in the local communities we serve.”
City wastewater treatment plant reports release of unhealthy bacteria
Subsequent testing by city shows levels were back to normal as of Friday
By Mark Brennan
Siuslaw News
See LCSO page 8A
On Wednesday afternoon,
City of Florence Public Infor-
mation Officer Megan Messmer
released a statement to the press
and public, noting that the city's
Wastewater Treatment Plant
had experienced a recent expo-
nential growth of a filamentous
bacteria that may have resulted
in periodic exceedances of its
National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES)
permit to the Siuslaw River.
"As of 2 p.m. today (Aug.
22), operations at the Florence
Wastewater Treatment Plant are
improving and appears to be
back within normal operation-
al parameters,” Messmer wrote.
“The filamentous bacteria…
causes ‘bulking’ in the treatment
process.”
According to Messmer, the
process can result in bulk ma-
terial not settling out in the fi-
nal stage of treatment prior to
disinfection during high flow
periods.
“The filaments interfere with
the UV disinfectant process
whereby the UV system is not
as effective as it should be when
the effluent is clear,” Messmer
explained. “This may result in
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