From: Susan Hansen
Sent: Mon Oct 17 15:37:55 2016
To: DECONCINI Nina
Subject: RE: What Molalla's Mayor elect tells the Molalla citizens about the violation in progress
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Thanks for your time as well. I wish it could be once about good news but that's not the way things are here these days. Someone really needs to start telling the raw truth to the taxpayers in that city. Susan
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From: nina.deconcini@state.or.us
Sent: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:29:17 +0000
To: foxglovefarm@inbox.com
Subject: RE: What Molalla's Mayor elect tells the Molalla citizens about the violation in progress
Thanks for forwarding Susan. I also appreciated your time by phone today.
Nina
From: Susan Hansen [mailto:foxglovefarm@inbox.com]
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 1:20 PM
To: YELTON-BRAM Tiffany; DECONCINI Nina; HAMMOND Joni
Subject: What Molalla's Mayor elect tells the Molalla citizens about the violation in progress
Dear DEQ officials,
Here's what mayor elect Jimmy Thompson (who is currently a city councilor and was present when Tiffany and Nina visited city council last month) is using as an excuse on the Molalla Now FB page where a photo was posted of the sign that alerts people to the current illegal discharge, as required by our lawsuit: (quote)
"Jimmy Thompson You all know how hard Oregon is on environmental issues. Molalla produces Class A effluent, the highest class that there is. DEQ lists permitable uses including things like watering play areas for kids at schools, just so long as a sign is posted.
The city can't presently discharge onto Coleman's ranch because of ponding. The restriction dates for discharge into the river is primarily because of lower river flows during that time frame. In this case, the river is flowing quite well. In fact, it was the excessive rain fall that put the city into this situation." (end quote)
Please not that Councilor Thompson says nothing to his citizens about the fact that there is not enough capacity in the lagoons and that is the reason for the early discharge into the river which Tiffany told me will be a violation.
Susan Hansen
Bear Creek Recovery