BUNDAY, JULY 01. 1060
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORE.
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Southwest Sewage Situation But A Part of Overall Problem
Suggestions (or
Solutions Made;
Some Long-Range
By JIM BOYD
Mail Tribune Stall Wriler
The m-wiiku problem In the
milhwi'iitirii iiri'ii adjacent In
Mi'iirnrcl are hut u pin t of thn
pollution prnhlnnx which the
Riilitin valley will fiica In the
.future.
, The flow of HewiiKo Into Ir
rigation laterals In also fouiKt
4 other purls of the valley,
Jireorrtlntf to J. A. Iloffhulir,
ifc'fritliiry-niiiniiuei' of tha Med
Juril IrrlKiitlon district,
i' The prolilcin It acute In the
area southwest of Mcdford
iily becuumi of the nunihr
bf people living there.
The growth of sulnirbun
reus In "a mushrooming sort
T)f thing," Orle Moore, county
eiinltiirliiii, sulci recently. "We
Jut fust running out of soils
lierc that lire ncceptiible for
4lie (llnpoaul of houncholri sew
lie," he nii id,
Severn! long-range augges
Jloim have been nwide.
Good County Planning
Moore claims thnt good
Tounty pliiiinlnii could pre
sent mnny of theko situations.
"We lire flndlni! that clone
limislng like on Clover lane
Just Isn't working out," he
juld. Because of this, he mild
Ithut he usually Insists that
rural house have a one half
rScro lot.
The problem with planning.
ic said, Is tho luck of con
trol over the uetual construc
tion of tho sewnxe facilities.
.Subdivisions, FIIA financed
And CI homes are reviewed
toy his office, but there is no
"Jirovlslon to Inspect privately
J'onstiueU'd sewage facilities.
3l Is not until the problem Is
present that It may be cllm
Mnated, he said.
Another Suggestion
. Still another suggestion Is
4hc moderiiltation of the laws
ft'hlch liovem pollution.
Tom Itoeder, Jackson conn
ly district attorney, suggest
ed that the laws which he
Avotild have to prosecute un
Jler muy have been designed
jwhen thero was lltllo concep
tion of the modern problems
tnf water and air pollution.
Jdeally Suited
Still another solution was
-iuKKcstcd when the Bcrrydalc
jtllslrlct was annexed to the
f Ity. At that time there was
n move to provide metropoli
tan scwaiic facilities for the
galley.
a One city offlclul said rc
cnlly that tho valley is
"Ideally suited for a metropoli
tan sewn p system.
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POLLUTION AREAS Reports of pollution
In irrlifatton laterals anil roadside ditches
have caused residents in this area southwest
of Mcdford to consider annexation. Diagonal
lines marked above Indicate areas which
have houses with pipes or ditches carrying
effluent Into irrigation laterals. No bounda
ries have been set yet around the area
which may be considered for annexation.
Annexation Action
Must Be By People
The city of Mcdford plans
to neither encourage nor dis
courage annexation of tho
area southwest of Mcdford. ac
cording to City Manager Rob
ert A. Duff.
This sort of action must
come frum people of the area,
he said.
This is also the stand of
most of the other government
al agencies concerned with
the problems of the aroa. All
recognize that there is a
problem, but do not want to
the natural reluctance of pres
ent governmental agencies to
lose control would bs the
limiting factors.
The final solution will come
only, as County Judge Karl
Miller said Friday, "when
enough people become con
cerned and put through pro
grams to keep this from occurring."
suggest what the remedy
should be.
If the people should decide
to annex, Mcdford can have
sewerage to the area in about
two years, Duff said.
He estimated that It would
take about 60 days for hear
ings on the annexation after
Die petition Li presented to
Uic city council.
After this, it would take
about 60 days to circulute a
petition for sewerage, a
month for hearings, and if the
petition was granted, about
six months to complete plans
and specifications.
Following this, It would
take about a month for bids
and nine months for actual
construction, .
SECRET ARMS DEAL
London-UPI-London Dally
Express columnist William
II I c k c y reported Saturday
that Soviet Premier Nikltn
Khrushchev has been secretly
buying arms from Britain.
Mickey claimed that they were
double-barrelled shotguns
made by London gunsmith
James Purday.
Boundaries To Be
Set After Poll
Tentative boundaries of the
area desiring annexation to
Medford will be drawn after
the opinion poll is completed
Wallace B. (Wally) Brill,
chairman of the polling com
mittee said Saturday.
Three of the seven poll lists
have been completed. Brill
said, and the committee hopes
to be finished within the next
few weeks.
After Ui is Is done, he. said,
the committee will plot the
locations on a map and then
draw tentative boundaries
around the areas desiring an
nexation. Lee Hobbs, who has a peti
tion with about 200 dissenting
names on it. said Saturday
that he would like to see the
areas objecting to the annexa
tion also plotted on the map.
Several Solutions Suggested
For Southwest Area Problem
By JIM BOYD
Mail Tribune Staff Wriler
Several solutions for the
dilemma confronting residents
of the area southwest of Mcd
ford have been suggested. But
in spite of stiff opposition,
annexation seems to be the
answer most generally sup
ported by the people of the
area, .
Residents now find them
selves threatened with prose
cution unless something is
done to abate the sewage pol
lution in the area. But a com
bination of natural factors
makes it impossible for many
of them to improve their
drainage systems.
The committee conducting
an opinion poll on annexa
tion has gathered about 450
signatures, Wallace B. (Wally)
Brill, chairman of the com-
Reeder Reaffirms
Earlier Decision
Tom Rccdcr, Jackson coun
ty district attorney, reaffirm
ed his decision Friday to
prosecute those people who
have made no attempt to
abate thir sewage pollution.
"Basically, I think we arc
faced with a situation where
criminal prosecution is r.ct
the answer. We are dealing
with law abiding citizens who
do not want to violate the
law," he said.
For those who have insur
mountable drainage problems,
Reeder said that he saw no
solution other than a sewery
system. "In these cases I feel
they should be given the op
portunity to seek a solution
before prosecution," he said.
"However, it is my view
that I cannot turn my back
on such violations and will
do what I can to see that those
laws are upheld."
"I prefer general persuasion
to outright prosecution, but
must certainly prosecute
where necessary," he said.
mittee, said yesterday. Only
10 of these oppose the annex
ation he said.
Oppose Annexation
Petitions circulated b y
persons opposed to the an
nexation have about 250 sig
natures, Lee Hobbs said.
The sewage pollution prob
lem first came to light when
Mcdford Irrigation district
demanded ' an investigation
Into the pollution of its irri
gation laterals.
A sheriff's deputy and irri
gation man checked the area
and found about 40 homes :
with pipes or ditches carrying
sewage into the laterals. No i
attempt was made to deter- '
mine how many homes had
seepage into Irrigation
streams.
These people were then
given three months to take
positive steps toward abating
the situation. This time limit
will fall due during the first
part of next month. j
Causa of Problem
The cause of this problem I
lies with the nature of the j
soil and the growing popula- ,
lion in the area, according to
Orie Moore, county sanitarian.
The soil in the area is a I
heavy clay soil which will not
absorb sewage effluent. This j
effluent then collects and has j
to be piped into roadside i
ditches, irrigation ditches, or I
other mean, of elimination. I
This, in turn, causes pollu- ,
tion and a situation "which
could be very grave," Moore j
said. There is little problem
as long as no one in the area :
has a communicable disease, 1
he said, but if one person
should become diseased, then
"it can be a very explosive !
situation."
Other solutions for the
problem have Included the
formation of an independent
sewerage district and the
elimination of the problem
through individual means.
"It is possible for the peo
ple In the area to form a sani
tary district with the approval
of the Stat. Board of Health,"
Moore said. "But the costs are
almost prohibitive for such a
small section to handle."
Moore also said that the ill-
constructed drain lines could
be redesigned, but that even
good 'nstallations are having
trouble.
"Some form of community
sewage is the only real answer
to it," he said.
Favor, Against Annexing
Residents in favor of an
nexation want it because of
the sewage situation and be
cause of the depreciation of
property values, resulting
from the situation.
Residents opposed to the
annexation appear to be rath
er independent folks who do
not want city regulation or
are seriously concerned with
the costs Involved.
Increased taxes and the in
evitable sewer charges art
felt to be too high, they say.
This U especially true, they
say, for the retired people oil
fixed Incomes in the aroa.
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Cars Damaged in
Crash; No One Hurt
Two cars sustained "consid
erable" damage Saturday
noon as the result of a head-.
on collision on Griffin Creek
rd.. near Mud Springs rd., ac-1
cording to state police. There
were no injuries.
Police said one of the cars, ;
operated by Albert Frank
Dutton, 43, Jacksonville, was
northbound on Griffin Creek
rd. in the wrong lane of traf
fic and collided with a south
bound vehicle operated by
Russell Franklin Kcmmcrcr,
22, route 4, Medford.
Police Informed Dutton1
that he would be cited into :
district court for failure to op-!
erate on the right side of the :
highway. Both cars were tow- j
ed from the scene of the ac-,
cident by wrecker. j
Schrunk Asked to
Form Water Group
Portland-UPI-Mayor Terry
Schrunk was requested Fri
day to form a citizen's com
mittee to educate Portlandcrs
on the city's water pollution
problem.
But the mayor said such a
committee was already being
organized, and would even
"carry some of the program
Into the public schools."
The request to Schrunk
came from the Oregon Com
mittee on Natural Resources,
in the form of a resolution
calling for a fiscal program
that would cope with sanitary
needs of the community.
Hatfield, Wife
Return to Oregon
Salom-IUPU-Gov. and Mrs
Murk Hatfield arrived home j
Saturday, from the 1960 Re
publican National Convention.
The Hatficlds flew from
Chicago to Seattle where the
governor served as honorary
grand marshal in the Seattle
Scafnlr celebration Saturday
morning.
His plane was due at Port
land International at 6:20 p.m.
and tho Hntfields were to
drive home to Salem,
PUBLISHER DIES
Stamford, Conn.-UPI-Rich-ard
L. Simon, 61, co-founder
of the book publishing house
of Simon & Schuster, died at
his home here Friday of a
heart attack. Simon, who re
tired in 1057 after two heart
attacks, was noted as one of
the first to employ the mod
ern methods of advertising,
promotion and merchandizing
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