From: Susan Hansen

Sent: Fri Apr 01 15:19:49 2016

To: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany; DECONCINI Nina; HAMMOND Joni

Subject: FW: As requested: ODA / DEQ memo

Importance: Normal

Attachments: ODAandDEQBacteriaCommunicationProcess20150914.pdf;

 

Hello DEQ,

 

I am happy Tiffany was able to provide this memo. But, my observation in the case of the two huge EColi counts from Coleman Ranch that flowed via Creamery Creek into Molalla neighborhoods, there was no totally clear cut way to impose blame or to say only one agency should have been in charge of the problem of public notification. The over use of wastewater irrigation on Coleman Ranch caused Creamery Creek to flow out of season washing manure into the creek which would have been dry in that season were it not for over application of wastewater. So both DEQ - which had jurisdiction over the wastewater over application issue and ODA - which has jurisdiction over the manure on the ranch (and it is not a CAFO operation so CAFO did not apply) - should have been involved with joint responsibility in that case. I hope you recognize in the future that it is more important to get the info out to the public than to fight over who is supposed to make the notification. In this case I had to do the notifying.

 

Susan Hansen

Bear Creek Recovery

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: yelton-bram.tiffany@deq.state.or.us

Sent: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 19:10:58 +0000

To: foxglovefarm@inbox.com

Subject: FW: As requested: ODA / DEQ memo

 

Hello Susan

The project of coordinating between ODA and DEQ regarding notification when an event happens that causes a release to waters of the state was larger in scale than I could do. So Nina and Joni assigned the work to our Regional Solutions Team representative , Cheryl Grabham. Attached is the procedure that will be followed, ad agreed to by ODA and DEQ.

Tiffany Yelton Bram

WQ Source Control Manager

Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

700 NE Multnomah St., Suite #600

Portland OR 97232

Desk 503 229 5219

Mobile 503 975 0046

From: GRABHAM Cheryl

Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 11:50 AM

To: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany

Subject: As requested: ODA / DEQ memo

Tiffany,

Here is the document you requested.

Cheryl

Cheryl Grabham

Regional Solutions Team Liaison, Portland Metro area

Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

700 NE Multnomah St., Suite #600

Portland, OR 97232

503-504-7906