RE: Paint in storm drains

From: Gerald Fisher

Sent: Tue Apr 02 13:12:08 2019

To: Leota Childress

Cc: Dan Huff

Subject: RE: Paint in storm drains

Importance: Normal

Just got back from Bear Creek Subdivision. After about 10 minutes of searching, because I have nothing else going on, I found the catch basin but because Mr. Lelm did not tell us about it when he saw it, there wasn’t much evidence left in the storm system to pursue it from an environmental stand point.

LGI was not the culprit. Turns out it was a property owner, who was thoroughly scolded by me, and he is now sweating about a violation. We will tie this off and provide education to the homeowner that decades of education locally, statewide, and nationally about dumping stuff down storm drains is a no-no. More frustrating is that LGI staff offered to pick it up from the homeowner and dispose of it properly but before they could get there the homeowner had dumped it down the storm drain. My head hurts thinking that there are people still out there that don’t get this.

For the folks out on FB this is also another education opportunity that FB will not solve their problems and to use the real tools available to them to report violations when they happen. Phone, email, online forms. Please feel free to convey my frustrations to folks on Molalla Now that their FB soap box will not fix problems and just makes things worse.

Thanks Leota.

Regards,

Gerald Fisher, P.E. | Public Works Director

City of Molalla

117 N Molalla Ave. | PO Box 248 |Molalla, OR 97038

Office: 503.829.6855 | Direct: 503.759.0218

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From: Gerald Fisher

Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 12:26 PM

To: Leota Childress <lchildress@cityofmolalla.com>; Andy Peters <apeters@cityofmolalla.com>

Subject: RE: Paint in storm drains

Leota,

I don’t have FB. Please contact Michael Lelm and tell him to stop posting to FB and contact the Public Works. FB will not go out and fix the problem for him. I need to know where it is at so I can get images of it and tear LGI homes a new hole. Thanks.

Regards,

Gerald Fisher, P.E. | Public Works Director

City of Molalla

117 N Molalla Ave. | PO Box 248 |Molalla, OR 97038

Office: 503.829.6855 | Direct: 503.759.0218

From: Leota Childress <lchildress@cityofmolalla.com>

Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 11:09 AM

To: Andy Peters <apeters@cityofmolalla.com>

Cc: Gerald Fisher <gfisher@cityofmolalla.com>

Subject: Paint in storm drains

Saw this from fb this morning.

‎Michael W. Lelm‎ to Molalla NOW