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Photo by Sean C. Morgan
A welcoming quilt
Hawthorne kindergarteners in Julie Thompson's afternoon class display a quilt they helped make. The
quilt is displayed inside the entrance to the school. Each kindergarten student. 40 total, drew his or her
own face to make a square on the quilt. The quilt was designed as a fun pro)ect, and it will be raffled at
the school carnival in May.
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means the rain took longer to fill
up the treatment plant. "We didn't
bypass as long either."
The city is in the fourth phase
of an inflow and infiltration re-
duction project. Inflow and in-
filtration is water that leaks into
the sewer system through dete-
riorating pipes or through cross
connections to storm drains. Dur-
ing heavy rain. I&I can cause the
treatment plant to reach its maxi-
mum capacity, forcing the city
to bypass highly diluted but un-
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treated wastewater into the South
Santiam River.
The city has spent nearly $15
million in four phases over the
past decade to reduce I&I under
an agreement with the Oregon
Department of Environmental
Quality, which agrees not to fine
the city for the bypasses.
The agreement expired on
Jan. 2010. but the DEQ has been
processing an extension request
since the expiration and has not
fined the city for bypasses.
The rain event started on
Jan. 17 and went through Jan. 19,
dropping 2.92 inches on Sweet
Home. The treatment plant by-
passed 234.000 gallons of un-
treated wastewater from 10:10
a.m. to 2:54 p.m. on Jan. 19.
The city last bypassed 1.22
million gallons of water from
11:55 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. on Jan.
16.2011. That rain event ran from
Jan. 15 to Jan. 16. with 2.2 inches
of rain.
Before that, the city bypassed
1.44 million gallons of rain from
12:39 p.m. on Dec, 29 to 4:45
a.m. on Dec. 30. That rain event
lasted from Dec. 25 to Dec. 29.
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Gone from sight,
but not from our hearts.
In loving memory of our dear father.
grmadfafler and great-grmdfaflaer
who passed away one year ago.
Always a smile,
instead of a frown.
Always a helping hand,
when one was down:
Always true. daoughfful and kind,
wonderful memories he left behind.
Sadly missed by daughters Kymberly, Christine, Annelie,
I I Mary June, and gTandchildren: Annamarie, Yvonne, Michelle,
sha, their families and many friends.
with 3.28 inches of rainfall.
The bypasses in 2010 and
2011 followed the completion
of Phase III of the I&I reduction
project. This year's included par-
tial completion of Phase IV.
The numbers don't give a
good accurate picture of how
much actual reduction the city
has had, Adams said. Flow testing
next winter will provide a clearer
picture of what's happening, but
the numbers do show improve-
ment.
"I am happy that our work is
proving to be effective," Adams
said. "I will be more excited to
learn the actual amount of reduc-
tions we've done Once the current
project is done and we get through
the official flow testing."
That will tell city officials
how much more reduction it needs
to attain and how much work the
city must do to reach compliance
with the DEQ, he said.
"We've made very significant
gains since (the late 1990s)," he
said. The city estimated the flow
in 2002 based on the best data
available at the time. After a cou-
ple of projects, the.city whittled
down that flow significantly.
Some of the reduction from
the original flow estimate was the
result of better data collection as
well. Adams said.
In 2002. the treatment plant
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Ames Creek pours into the South Santiam River after a big storm.
could handle nearly 7 million gal-
lons per day of wastewater. Dur-
ing heavy rains, flows would peak
at an estimated rate of 22 million
gallons per day, a difference of 15
million gallons per day.
After Phase I and Phase II
of the reduction project, flows to
the plant were measured at 15.3
million gallons per day, about 7
million gallons per day less than
the original estimate and 8 mil-
lion gallons per day more than the
plant could handle.
After Phase III. the flows
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were reduced to 12.7 million gal-
lons per day, approximately 5.7
million gallons per day above the
plant's maximum capacity.
Phase IV started last sum-
mer and will be finished toward
the end of spring, Adams said.
Whatever the flow number is af-
ter Phase IV will determine how
much work the city must do at the
treatment plant in the future.
The city is estimating that it
will have 3 million gallons per day
left to reduce following Phase IV.
Adams said. "Hopefully we'll do
better. We're supposed to be able
to handle a lot more rain than we
have without bypassing. There's a
lot more work to be done. but we
are making great strides at it."
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