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Junction City council starts process for sewer‑connection moratorium as DEQ negotiates MAO
Summary
After a lengthy staff presentation and council Q&A, Junction City authorized staff to begin the public‑notice and hearing process to adopt a sewer‑connection moratorium in response to a forthcoming DEQ Mutual Agreement and Order that will limit new sewer connections until corrective actions are completed.
Junction City’s City Council on July 9 directed staff to begin the statutory notice and hearing process that would allow the city to adopt a moratorium on new sewer connections after the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) proposed a Mutual Agreement and Order (MAO) affecting the city’s treatment plant.
City attorney Attorney Connolly told the council the MAO is intended to acknowledge existing violations while setting a schedule of upgrades and milestones; as written it also allocates a limited number of new sewer connections and releases the agency from immediate penalties if the city completes the specified tasks. “The MAO actually settles…
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