The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 9, 1979 THREE
trect vaealjim approved.;
org Water study
council
The Heppner Oily Ceaiai a!
granted approval Monday
night for vacation of five taet
of Thompson Street lo the
Morrow County Court for
expansion of Pioneer Mem
orial Hospital from a recom
mendation by the street com
mittee and gave the go-ahead
to a master water study plan
by a Portland enitT'eti'iK
firm.
Councilman Cliff Green said
the street cormnit'ee ree.are -mended
granting the vara! ion
request in exchange for word
on a corner owned by the
county, vacating 5 feet a'anr;
Thompson Street at the rear of
Pioneer Memoi ial H-v- ii.il,
returning the street in
way traffic and cUns 'ti;!'
diagonal parking spot1; in lii-r
area.
County Judge l o .m-i-
appeared before the Comici! to
pledge the county's reap: 1 ''
tion if necessary to provide
land in the exchange pi r-r
There were no hospital baar.1
members present.
Representing th waler
committee. Green. ret oi a
mended later in the srsiim
that the city hire its ovwi
engineering firm, Frank H
rett and Associates of I 'on
land, to begin a master water
plan to study the city's present
water facilities, pinpoint pi--h-lems
and present alterneli'. '
Aware that $3.2 miili.m m
construction funds may be
approved in Congress in t'se
next few months for t'a
Willow Creek Dam pn.j'.'"l .
Green noted that the first pari
of those funds would be
earmarked for re)ncn'uj 'he
city's water system. Rcfmv
the dam is constructed, iK
officials said a w eti i n sen
voir will have lo I e i .Ica!v
and new water liner in su.'l'.cd.
Green said if the e!en.
project is apprwd. !ia city
should have its ow.i iMtsjiw t
to negotiate with the Carps of
Engineers.
To begin the water study.
Green said the t'ligitieerin.'i
firm was asking $15, Wi.
That could be an obsi ;..!
because there is no hue Um ;,.
the budget for the wa'er sua!;-,
and Attorney Bob Uni'ii
advised the council that it
could only file a supplemental
budget if it had it burlgeie.t
County Judge Nelson said
the city might apply for A -Ha
funds through the East Cen
tral Oregon Association of
Counties.
Mayor Jerry Sweeney KiM
there were a number r.f
possibilities and asked Clt
Adniifiistrtdor i! ,irel:aM 1 ov
iiren whether ftiii'N couhi b
transteia od iron' "ho sewer
aiv.l brid.;',e' funds !- rair.e a I
least $i,-(HI!.i of .( tpiote-d
lb- read a letter from the
Stal:.' I epai (merit ot f-aiviron-menln!
Qnality. cienyitig sevv
um :rant fui'ds. The city
l'lUi''t reach priority status n
fiscal year i'-'ai, lie sa'd tor
hetti'i'ir. tt 1 h.tv I of ;'i(y
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V,,f Cixw'l liive the Co
ahead for !' b ofrr (lie
enitii.e-aroii: ) i' n a perHnn ef
the i f i . t Seifinnin; th
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Afler hearing about a half
hour of tapes on the last
reading of (he city's proposed
zoning, subdivision and
mobile home park ordinances,
the Council granted approval.
John Weygandt's hid of $300
was accepted by the Council
for a pie-shaped portion of city
land near Hager park, vacat
ing a dedicated street which
was never built, Cross Street,
near Willow Creek.
),ogren reported to the
Council that Well No. 6 is
pumping up sand and recom
mended having a television
scan of the system. If the city
waits until October, the Water
Resources Department will do
il at no cost. The city
postponed the action because
of the estimated $750 cost for
the scanning.
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htsi v ' i ,ia''a n a I ioa More
than ba if tlva e imsl.-: atna -
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ia; Fieri , ic s
r t 'ani sa'nh
II ike seen
if area's'
power rates
because of a forthcoming
ooost in wholesale power rates
ami'anting to almost 100
percent, the Columbia Basin
hicetric ('ooperative, Inc. will
be ' torced" to increase its
telai! electricity rates, ac
centing to Fred R. Toombs,
manaeer.
in a hitter to consumer
members of the Columbia
P-asin Co-op, Toombs said the
wholesale increase from the
I'.onneville Power Administra
tion would become effective in
December.
"This is the same increase
we have heard about for over
a year," Toombs said.
fie said the increase to be
parsed on to consumers prob
acy would be in the range of
W to -to percent, based on a
tost of service and rate study
now under way. The study is
neing made by the consulting
firm of F.eonomics and Engi
n"rraig Services, Inc., of
i'.elbue. Wash. The study will
he completed in two or three
months.
Whether to hold hearings on
the rate increases would be
determined by Columbia
iSasui Co-op's board of dir
e tors, Toombs said.
"Our present rates are
below those of the investor-,
owned utilities in the area," he
commented.
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Tlte Dmdhnv. For Filing Your
Oregon Property 'lax Relief Claim
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Anyone WIo Owns 'The Home They
Live In-Rer.rniess Of Income-Is
LiHiuU1 To A Chum
For More hifatrcntkm Call The Morrow
Countv A'-ah: Office,
Greg Sweek,
Conmy Assessor
Fire danger
prohibits
forest uses
Forest Supervisor H.B.
Rudolph of the Umatilla
National Forest issued regu
lations for forest use Wednes
day, August 8 because of the
high fire danger.
Prohibited are the "build
ing, maintaining, attending,
using or allowing to exist any
fire of any type except for
campfires within designated
campgrounds in constructed
fireplaces, any use of charcoal
briquets, smoking while trav
eling except inside closed
motor vehicles, firewood cut
ting and welding or operating
acetylene or other torches
with open flame."
Locally, the Heppner Ran
ger District has sent personnel
to the John Day fire, which
had burned about 400 acres
Tuesday morning. Bernie
Jacobs has also been sent to
the Salmon Creek fire in
Northern Idaho.
Resource Department to
announce water plans
Boardman Coal-Fired Plant: applies
for air contaminant discharge
Portland General Electric
has applied for an air contam
inant discharge for the Coal
Fired Electric Power Plant at
Boardman.
PGE has asked the Depart
ment of Environmental Qual
ity to grant the permit along
with 10 other companies
including a Pendleton sawmill
operated by Blue Mountain
Forest Products.
The DEQ encourages any
one desiring to submit infor
mation concerning the appli
cants or the proposed permits
which might aid or assist the
Department in making an
adequate review. Written
comments must be submitted
prior to September 15, 1979.
The permit program re
quires applicants to file an
application to allow operation
under specified conditions and
rules. Any permit proposed or
issued contains restrictive
emission limits, compliance
schedules as applicable and
specific conditions relative to
operation.
Comments should be ad
dressed to Department of
Environmental Quality, Air
Contaminant Discharge Per
mit Program, P.O. Box 1760,
Portland, Oregon, 97201.
Student attends program
Carol Cheney, a student at
lone High School was one of 39
students from across the state
to represent the school at the
Oregon College of Education's
Summer Honors Program,
July 30 through August 3.
Theme of the program was
"The Sixties, When You Were
Growing Up," considering the
profound changes in Ameri
can society
The Oregon Water Resour
ces Department has scheduled
a meeting to discuss its plans
for the Butter Creek area
southwest of Hermiston.
The meeting will be held in
Thompson Hall at the Hermis
ton County Fairgrounds on
Thursday, August 16 at 7:30
p.m.
"At the meeting I will
discuss the Department's plan
for further study of the ground
water in the Butter Creek area
in parts of Morrow and
Umatilla counties," said Jim
Sexson, Water Resources Dir
ector. "The meeting is open to
the public and I hope we have
the same good attendance and
participation that we had at
the July meeting."
This will be a follow-up of a
meeting held by the Depart
ment in July. Sexson said he
considered public comments
made at the July meeting in
making his plans.
Sexson called the first
meeting after an order he
issued in May of 1978, declar
ing the area a critical ground
water area and limiting
ground water use, was rever
sed and remanded by the
Oregon Court of Appeals in
June.
County hires
two workers
Two men, Norris Dooney
and Loren Pearsall, have been
hired by the Morrow County
Court to operate light equip
ment in the Boardman-Irrigon
area for the County road
department.
The new employees were
selected out of 30 applications
submitted by prospective job
seekers.
The County Court said the
road department was being
"beefed up" to improve roads
in the north end of the county.
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