From: Susan Hansen
Sent: Thu Jan 18 08:32:01 2018
To: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany; BACHMAN Jeff; DECONCINI Nina; Richard Whitman
Cc: rdavis@oregonian.com; jason.miner@oregon.gov; grandinetti.robert@epa.gov; wwtp@cityofmolalla.com; jthompson@cityofmolalla.com; kswigart@cityofmolalla.com
Subject: FW: Wastewater Facility & Collection System Master Plan Update | City of Molalla Oregon
Importance: Normal
Dear DEQ,
I assume that Molalla has by now provided you with a copy of the Oct. 2017 Smoke Test report? It, just like Richwine, says Molalla's wastewater system is over capacity right now. From the report: “…Molalla’s collection system and wastewater treatment facility is hydraulically overloaded” and over 200 inflow and infiltration problems were discovered.
Richwine said that Molalla's capacity is exceeded for influent screening, aeration basin function, flotation thickening and effluent filtration. Richwine states that the two unlined sewage lagoons are “being stressed to operate beyond … capacity at this time”. (And DEQ says those lagoons are leaking approx. 173,000 gallons a day into groundwater - and we still don't have a plan in place to figure out where all those millions of gallons a year are going!).
Since ORS 340-052-0015 (3)(c) requires PROOF OF CAPACITY it certainly seems we have multiple reports that prove there is NO SEWAGE PROCESSING CAPACITY for growth in Molalla. What is DEQ going to do about that?
Susan Hansen
Bear Creek Recovery