Bend city councilors will grapple with a number of talking-point issues during their meeting Wednesday, causing them to kick off a work session about 30 minutes before the regular starting time.
In the Media
December 11, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Bend to review WaterWatch’s allegations of waste
When WaterWatch of Oregon filed a complaint with the state this week alleging the city of Bend’s Bridge Creek water system was operating illegally, the thrust of the argument was that the city wasn’t putting all the water it diverted to a “beneficial use.”
December 10, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Bend’s water policy under fire
An environmental advocacy group that focuses on protecting stream flows in Oregon wants the state to shut down the city of Bend’s Bridge Creek water system, claiming it has been operating illegally.
December 2, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Bend OKs water filtration system
Bend City Councilors opted Wednesday to pursue the more expensive of two water treatment options as engineers continue to design a proposed $73 million reconstruction and expansion of the Bridge Creek water system.
November 15, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Restoration work helps nature, new businesses thrive
As workers with J & S Trucking reconstructed a section of Whychus Creek this fall, placing logs in the banks and boulders in the creek bed to create fish habitat, the work was a far cry from what the company was doing a decade ago.
November 29, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Bend finds ways to cut costs on energy
By turning off a few valves and adding some new pipes to Bend’s water system, the city can save between 23 percent and 67 percent on those electricity bills, a recent study found.
November 24, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Tapping the Deschutes
Rocks and logs appeared in stretches of the Upper Deschutes River, and Mirror Pond started looking more like a mud flat, as water managers have dialed down the flow of the river for the winter.
October 26, 2010 – Sisters Nugget – Salmon Watch on the Metolius
These are heady times for anyone interested in saving water and bringing back salmon fisheries to the streams and rivers of the Northwest. In Central Oregon their are so many water conservation groups they might step all over each other; but the best part is, they're coordinated, and instead of competing, it's like a beautiful dance, and the winners are salmon and us.
November 12, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Bend Mulls purification options for city's water
City of Bend water customers should soon get a glimpse of how much their monthly bills will increase over the next several years as a result of a planned $73 million upgrade to the Bridge Creek water system.