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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017
NEWS
Cardboard recycling center catches fire
HERMISTON HERALD
STAFF PHOTOS BY KATHY ANEY
A firefighter sprays a mountain of burning cardboard July 12 at a recycling facility south of Hermiston on Highway 395.
A fire started around
1:30 p.m. July 12 at the
cardboard recycling facility
on South Highway 395 and
spread to a nearby field.
Fire Marshal Tom Bohm
said he didn’t know what
had caused the fire or exact-
ly how wide it had spread,
and neither did the own-
er of the facility, Medelez
Trucking.
More than 30 firefight-
ers from Umatilla County
Fire District, as well as fire
departments from Umatil-
la, Pendleton, Boardman,
Echo and East Umatil-
la County were on scene
to help control the blaze.
Bales of cardboard were
engulfed in flames, and fire-
fighters were filling large
containers with water to
help tackle the fire.
The Oregon Department
of Transportation briefly
shut down Highway 395
due to smoke crossing the
roadway.
UCFD Battalion Chief
A firefighter sprays a
mountain of burning
cardboard July 12.
J.W. Roberts said no struc-
tures were affected by the
blaze, though he estimated
$60,000 in losses for card-
board and $5,000 in equip-
ment at the facility.
“It’s just a pain with
this wind,” Roberts said.
“These things don’t go out.
This’ll burn all night.”
Roberts said the fire
would likely continue to
burn into the grass as well,
so crews would probably
just burn the whole field.
Crews responded to a
fire at the recycling center
last year as well, Roberts
said.
WORSHIP
Water on Seventh Street coming
from excess groundwater
COMMUNITY
Water flowing from a catch
basin on the corner of Southwest
Seventh Street and Division Av-
enue is coming from an “abun-
dance of ground water” according
to Hermiston street superinten-
dent Ron Sivey.
The water had been flowing
along the side of the road down
to Highland Avenue for about a
week when the source was deter-
mined.
Sivey said the subdivision there
has tile pipes to collect groundwa-
ter, and the system is working as
it should as the pipes overflow. He
said the excess groundwater may
be a combination of the unusually
wet winter and spring and extra
irrigation on a field.
The city will work to determine
if there are any blockages that are
contributing to the overflow.
“There’s nothing to be con-
cerned about at this point,” he
said.
Echo Community Church
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STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
Water flows from a storm drain at the corner of West Division Avenue and Southwest
Seventh Street. The water, which has been flowing steadily out of the drain for about
a week, has been traveling two blocks down Seventh Street to another drain on
Highland Avenue.
Non-ag burn ban coming for Umatilla County
By PHIL WRIGHT
STAFF WRITER
The Board of Commis-
sioners will consider pass-
ing a non-agriculture burn
ban in Umatilla County..
Gina Miller, the staff
liaison for the county’s
smoke management com-
mittee, asked the board in a
memo to impose the ban as
soon as possible.
The county is experi-
encing wildfire conditions,
Miller said, and Pendleton,
the Umatilla Indian Reser-
vation and Umatilla County
Fire District have burn bans
in place now.
The
board
meets
Wednesday at 9 a.m. in
room 130 at the Umatilla
County Courthouse, 216
S.E. Fourth St., Pendleton.
The county board also
will consider an order
transferring ambulance ser-
vices from the East Uma-
tilla County Health District
to the new East Umatilla
County Ambulance Area
Health District, which vot-
ers approved in the Novem-
ber election.
And the board will con-
sider approving the coun-
ty’s four-year plan for
preventative maintenance.
Commissioner
George
Murdock is keen on the
plan. He has said local
government during times
of tight budgets too often
ignore maintenance, which
leads to more expensive re-
pairs later.
Under the plan, the coun-
ty would spend $151,000
this fiscal year on 18 main-
tenance projects, ranging
from a low end of $150 for
parking lot striping to highs
of $25,000 for a new roof
on the maintenance shop
and $50,000 to replacing
the parking lot there.
For fiscal year 2018-19,
the county projected spend-
ing $197,100 on 11 proj-
ects, including $114,000
to replace the floor at the
Umatilla County Sheriff’s
Office. And for 2019-20,
seven projects would costs
$109,560, with painting the
exterior of the county jail
topping the list at $34,480.
The fourth year of the
plan has one project: re-
placing the roof at the
county jail for $350,000.
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