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Resident alleges faulty reservoir rehabilitation, settlement and withheld report
Summary
A resident alleged at the March 19 work session that the city’s 2,000,000-gallon reservoir suffered failure due to inadequate testing during a 2017 rehabilitation and that a settlement obscured responsibility.
A St. Helens resident told the council during public comment on March 19 that the city’s 2,000,000-gallon reservoir suffered failures he attributed to inadequate testing and oversight during a rehabilitation project.
Ron Tramlitz said the rehabilitation was engineered by a hired firm (which he named as Enerdy Jenks) and asserted the city allowed construction without interior access, concrete testing or “due diligence.” He told the council core samples taken May 24,…
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