From: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany
Sent: Thu Jan 07 18:00:49 2016
To: 'Susan Hansen'
Cc: DECONCINI Nina
Subject: RE: Re: Bear Creek wastewater discharge
Importance: Normal
Attachments: 10-26-2015WLOTCMolalla.pdf; 15-1229 follow-up report to DEQ.pdf; 16-0105 Molalla Letter to DEQ.pdf; Hello Susan The two letters are correct. I made some errors in my conversation with you on the phone. To assist, here is a chronology of what happened-- -A lagoon leak test was required as a condition of the permit. The leak test results were submitted in September 2015 but were inconclusive -DEQ replied with the attached warning letter and memo. This gave Molalla to January 25, 2016, to complete an audit of the leak test. -The city's attorney contacted DEQ in late November to propose an alternative to an audit of the existing test -DEQ was supposed to meet with Molalla on December 3rd but that meeting was cancelled by the city -On December 4th, the city's attorney sent the letter that you have proposing the alternative to the audit. The cancelled December 3rd meeting was rescheduled to December 10th. -Rainstorms began on December 7th. The city asked to cancel the December 10th meeting to attend to storm related issues. DEQ agreed and drafted the December 7th letter that you have. This is where I made my mistake. I forgot that we decided to send the letter in advance of having the rescheduled meeting, which is now set for January 11 and will go into greater detail about expectations on the work that the city will do to be able to conduct an accurate test. The option of requiring the city to drill monitoring wells is still open. Also attached is the report from the city on the discharge to Bear Creek that you requested in your Public Records Request. 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 -----Original Message----- From: Susan Hansen [mailto:foxglovefarm@inbox.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 3:14 PM To: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany Cc: DECONCINI Nina Subject: FW: Re: Bear Creek wastewater discharge Dear Tiffany, here is the exchange we are questioning - it sounds like David Cole is giving them till August 2016. Please explain whether these are official or not - they are posted on the city website. Susan >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Susan Hansen [mailto:foxglovefarm@inbox.com <mailto:foxglovefarm@inbox.com>] >> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 12:39 PM >> To: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany >> Cc: DECONCINI Nina >> Subject: Bear Creek wastewater discharge >> >> >> >> Dear Tiffany, >> >> I failed to note exactly what the rule was about when a violation period would end and a new one might begin on the issue of Molalla's discharge of wastewater into Bear Creek. You mentioned there would have to be a certain period of dry weather and then if discharge had to continue or begin again it would trigger another violation. Could you please furnish the exact way that rule goes and tell me how DEQ keeps track of that issue of a period without rainfall? >> >> Thanks, >> Susan Hansen >> Bear Creek Recovery >> >> <Molalla-Final-Permit.pdf> >