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Clackamas Water Environment Services outlines major projects, long-range planning and volunteer opportunities
Summary
Greg Geist, director of Clackamas Water Environment Services, described how the agency treats wastewater to recover clean water, biogas and biosolids; highlighted the $58 million Clackamole outfall project and the Carly Creek restoration; and urged residents to volunteer via SOLVE or clackamas.us/wes.
Greg Geist, director of Clackamas Water Environment Services, said the agency serves about 200,000 people in Clackamas County’s urbanized area and treats wastewater, stormwater and surface water to recover usable resources.
"We are a special district, which means we have ratepayers instead of taxpayers," Geist said, explaining WES’s funding structure and role. He summarized the facility’s outputs: "We make clean water that goes back out to the river for downstream uses. We make biogas, which we then burn to make electricity," and "we make a natural fertilizer called biosolids." Geist said the agency uses the biogas to power roughly half of the treatment facility and that biosolids are applied on agricultural fields in Eastern Oregon.
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