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COVID-19 data for Wednesday, March 17:
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Crook County cases: 789 (1 new case)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday
7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday
and holidays
Deschutes County cases: 6,141 (7 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 70 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 1,996 (2 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 31 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 160,259 (239 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,349 (3 new deaths)
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Bend on Wednesday: 11 (2 in ICU)
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130
(Dec. 4)
108 new cases
120
(Jan. 1)
90
new
cases
110
*No data
available on
Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
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sick people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public, stay 6 feet from others and wear a cloth
face covering or mask. 6. Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue or cough into
your elbow. 7. Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
50
new
cases
90
70
60
(Feb. 17)
50
(Nov. 14)
7-day
average
28 new cases
(July 16)
40
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
100
80
47 new cases
9 new cases
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
10
(March 11)
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LEFT: The Capitol
building is reflected in
a pond on the Capitol
grounds in Salem.
Hundreds of thousands
of people, including
those in Salem, live
downstream of the
Detroit Dam, which is at
risk of rupturing from
a major earthquake.
ABOVE: Kane’s Marina
on Detroit Lake
Reservoir in Detroit.
Detroit Dam could fail in a large
earthquake, federal authorities say
BY ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
T
he U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers has deter-
mined that a large earth-
quake — which is expected
to occur again in the Pacific
Northwest sooner or later —
could cause the spillway gates
of a dam in Oregon to buckle,
resulting “in a potentially cata-
strophic flood.”
The Corps announced Mon-
day it will try to minimize the
danger by reducing the max-
imum height of the lake by 5
feet starting in April. Hundreds
of thousands of people, includ-
ing those in the state capital,
live downstream from the De-
troit Dam, whose construction
in the 1950s created the nar-
row, 9-mile long Detroit Lake.
The move comes as Oregon
and the wider Northwest are
coming to grips with “the big
one” that experts say is com-
ing. Earthquakes in the Cas-
cadia subduction zone, which
extends from the ocean off
Northern California to Cana-
da’s Vancouver Island, have an
average magnitude of around
9, making them among the
world’s biggest.
A quake in that zone has a
37% probability of happening
off Oregon’s Coast in the next
50 years, according to Chris
Goldfinger, an Oregon State
University professor and earth-
quake geologist.
Just last week, an earthquake
early warning system was
launched in Oregon. Operated
by the U.S. Geological Survey,
the state joined California in
the system that sends alerts
to smart phones. Washington
state is expected to join the
ShakeAlert system, which op-
erates on an array of seismic
sensors, in May.
“When a Cascadia event
happens, the critical seconds
of notice ShakeAlert warn-
ings provide will save lives and
reduce damage to important
lifeline systems,” Oregon Gov.
Kate Brown said the day it
launched, on Thursday.
Lawmakers are also trying
to prepare the state for a major
earthquake.
In the Oregon Legislature,
House Bill 3083 mandates that
contracts for public works must
adhere to seismic safety stan-
dards and seismic rehabilitation
standards in constructing or
renovating public buildings or
critical infrastructure in earth-
quake-prone areas. A House
committee has a work session
scheduled for the bill on April 1.
In 2020, the U.S. Army
Photos: AP file (left),
The Oregonian file (above)
Corps of Engineers completed
a seismic hazard analysis for
Detroit Dam, and found the
risk to be higher than Corps
officials previously thought.
“Structural analysis has
shown a possibility of the spill-
way gates buckling under the
force of a full reservoir during
a large earthquake,” the Corps
said in its statement. “Risk is
high enough to warrant imme-
diate actions.”
A breach would send a surge
of water shooting down the
Santiam Canyon, which was
devastated by a wildfire last
summer, and onto where it
opens up on the eastern edge
of the Willamette Valley.
“Because Detroit Dam is lo-
cated upstream of many com-
munities including the state
capital of Salem, Oregon, there
is potential for devastating
flooding to affect large portions
of the narrow North Santiam
River canyon and urban areas,”
the Corps said in its draft envi-
ronmental assessment.
Lowering the maximum level
is a temporary solution to miti-
gate the risks and will have little
impact, the Corps said. The lake
is used for recreation, and most
of the boat ramps would be un-
usable for up to a month.
The Corps said it contin-
ues to evaluate the seismic
performance of the spillway
and other components of the
dam to determine if long-term
modifications or changes to
operations will be necessary.
That includes the potential for
major reconstruction to ad-
dress seismic risk.
EUGENE — A federal
appeals court has revived a
University of Oregon pro-
fessor’s lawsuit alleging the
university has failed to ad-
dress a “glaring” pay gap
between her and male col-
leagues.
Psychology professor
Jennifer Joy Freyd argued
that the university paid her
thousands less per year than
it paid four male profes-
sors though they were all of
equal rank and seniority.
A three-judge panel of
the 9th U.S. Circuit of Ap-
peals held Monday that a
reasonable jury could find
that Freyd and her male col-
leagues performed a com-
mon core of tasks and did
substantially equal work yet
the men drew significantly
higher wages.
The decision reverses a
ruling by U.S. District Judge
Michael J. McShane and
moves the case back to the
trial court.
The appeals panel re-
vived Freyd’s claims under
the federal Equal Pay Act,
Oregon’s law prohibiting
discriminatory wages and
federal civil rights law pre-
venting job discrimination
based on sex.
The decision has coin-
cided with Freyd’s retire-
ment and new status as
professor emeritus at the
university. “I gave the uni-
versity my career basically,
and it’s hard to be treated
this way,” Freyd said.
In a statement, the Uni-
versity of Oregon said it will
evaluate whether to appeal
or proceed to trial .