From: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany
Sent: Thu Jan 18 08:54:33 2018
To: 'Susan Hansen'; 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: RE: Wastewater Facility & Collection System Master Plan Update | City of Molalla Oregon
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Susan,
As part of the work on developing a facility plan (plan for upgrades to the sanitary sewer and collection system), Mike Pinney, our senior engineer, has been meeting with the city and the Dyer Partnership, the consultant writing the report. Dyer provided the smoke test via link to the website to Mike as part of the documentation for their development of the plan.
Through the facility planning process and the building of the plant upgrades and collection system upgrades, the city will fix the capacity issue--that is goal we are all moving towards. Mike does the plan and specification reviews for collection system expansion, which is when we ask for certification of capacity, so I am confident that given his role in the facility plan review and the collection system expansion review, he will make informed decisions.
Tiffany Yelton Bram
WQ Source Control Manager
Northwest Regional Office
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
700 NE Multnomah St., Suite #600
Portland OR 97232
Desk 503 229 5219
Mobile 503 975 0046
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From: Susan Hansen [mailto:foxglovefarm@inbox.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:32 AM
To: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany <tiffany.yelton-bram@state.or.us>; BACHMAN Jeff <jeff.bachman@state.or.us>; DECONCINI Nina <nina.deconcini@state.or.us>; Richard Whitman <richard.whitman@state.or.us>
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
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