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Council sends water master plan draft to Oregon Health Authority, urges focus on reducing leaks
Summary
The Estacada City Council authorized staff to send the draft water master plan to the Oregon Health Authority for review and asked the city engineer to prioritize a program to locate and reduce the city’s approximately 37% system water loss.
The Estacada City Council on Oct. 9 voted to send a draft water master plan to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) for formal review and asked staff to emphasize a strategy to locate and reduce system water loss before final adoption.
Councilor McElroy led a line of questioning about the plan’s allocation of funds toward production capacity versus leak detection and repair. "We're losing 37% of the [system water] — and we're spending 1.7% of the $14,000,000 on addressing the 37% loss," he said, urging a…
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