From: Susan Hansen

Sent: Wed May 27 14:56:24 2015

To: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany

Cc: DECONCINI Nina; HAMMOND Joni; PEDERSEN Dick; psavage@molallapioneer.com

Subject: Molalla sewage spill : Media Contact Molalla Pioneer

Importance: Normal

Dear Tiffany,

Your interaction with the Molalla Pioneer editor totally failed to tell the truth about Molalla's notification on Monday, the day of the spill, to DEQ. You have twice confirmed to me that Molalla did not disclose to DEQ till Friday of that week that RAW SEWAGE had escaped into Bear Creek. You told me today on the phone that the Monday notification call from Cline ONLY disclosed to you that there had been a "release but that it was contained in the plant."

What was your purpose in failing to disclose those factual details to the Pioneer? Don't you think the people who pay for public works and DEQ services deserve to know that Molalla failed to tell DEQ about the escape of RAW SEWAGE into Bear Creek for several days and that the Monday phone call to you was to claim the release was contained in the plant?

Your failure to provide the detailed facts about what was disclosed and when makes DEQ part of the problem - if citizens are not given detailed facts they will never be able to make certain their cities are safe and ethical places to live. I certainly look forward to you or your supervisors correcting the record in the Pioneer. Editor Ms. Savage has been copied on this email so you can easily follow up with her about the facts of this incident.

Susan Hansen

Bear Creek Recovery

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

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

Sent: Wed, 27 May 2015 20:17:12 +0000

To: foxglovefarm@inbox.com

Subject: FW: Media Contact Molalla Pioneer

Susan,

I know you have additional questions about the Pioneer story and what I said to Peggy Savage.

When a member of the media contacts us, we fill out a media contact form to try to capture the questions as asked and our response. We answer the questions as asked.

Tiffany

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From: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany

Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 11:37 AM

To: DECONCINI Nina; ALSDORF William H; DANAB Marcia; MCPHERSON Lee; SVELUND Greg; WHITE Brian; FLYNT Jennifer; ARMSTRONG Ken; COLE David

Cc: CALDERA Stephanie; MANEY Ella; [All DEQ] Regional Solutions; PEDERSEN Dick; HAYES-GORMAN Linda; ANDERSEN Keith; HAMMOND Joni; HUDDLESTON Dana; EMER Lydia; WILES Wendy; MRAZIK Steve

Subject: RE: Media Contact Molalla Pioneer

Date and Time Contacted: 5/21/15 11:27am

Publication/Station: Molalla Pioneer

Reporter’s Name and Phone Number: Peggy Savage 503-829-2301

Topic Discussed: Peggy asked if the City of Molalla contact DEQ about the release. I replied that I received a call from the city (PW director) on May 11^th at 4:30pm which was within 24 hours of discovery of the release. The NPDES Permit requires that we are notified within 24 hours. I also explained that we received a written report on Friday, May 15^th that is also required by the permit. This report documents the cause of the release and response to it as much as is known by day 5. She asked about volume and next steps and I said we are still investigating.

Reporter’s Deadline: tomorrow am 5/21 am