From: Susan Hansen
Sent: Thu Dec 24 15:33:36 2015
To: DECONCINI Nina
Subject: RE: Molalla discharge into Bear Creek
Importance: Normal
Thanks Nina, I will look forward to clarification on the issues next week. Happy Holidays to you - since we are not religious we are keeping our heads down and staying out of traffic! Take care, Susan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: deconcini.nina@deq.state.or.us
> Sent: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 22:16:10 +0000
> To: foxglovefarm@inbox.com
> Subject: RE: Molalla discharge into Bear Creek
>
> Thanks for your message Susan. I am not able to provide the clarification
> you've asked for below. There aren't any water quality staff in the
> office today however, Tiffany has had numerous exchanges with the City
> over the past few days regarding our expectations that they follow their
> permit requirements. I'm sure you can imagine there are many
> jurisdictions we're working with right now who are having similar
> challenges.
>
> We should be able to get back to you with more information early next
> week.
>
> I wish you a merry Christmas.
>
> Nina
>
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Susan Hansen <foxglovefarm@inbox.com>
> Date: 12/24/2015 09:53 (GMT-08:00)
> To: DECONCINI Nina <DECONCINI.Nina@deq.state.or.us>
> Subject: Molalla discharge into Bear Creek
>
> Dear Nina,
>
> I talked to Tiffany yesterday about the current violation where Molalla
> is discharging treated waste water into Bear Creek. Could you please
> clarify how these violations begin and end? I believe Tiffany said that
> once there was a period of no rain - I thought she said at least 8 hours
> of no rain - any need to continue to discharge into Bear Creek would be a
> new violation. I would like someone to tell me the exact rule on start
> and stop of each violation period and how DEQ is keeping track of periods
> when rain ends. Tiffany's voice mail indicated she will be out for a few
> days and I would appreciate an answer to those questions since we today
> are in a period of no rain and I hope someone at DEQ is keeping track?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Susan Hansen
> Bear Creek Recovery