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.~ " 5 ::I IT WAS MOVED BY Bo 0 T H , SECONDED BY WELLS THAT THE REPORT or THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE BE ADOPTED. MOTION CARRIED. REPORTS or BOARDS AND COMM I SS IONS I 6 A REPORT or THE HEALTH BOARD - RE: SANITARY DISTRICT, CHLORINATION or MILLRACE, ETC. WAS I SUBMITTED AND READ AS rOLLOWS: I ! II "A MEETING or THE HEALTH BOARD WAS HELD ON MONDAY, GCTOBER 3, 1949 IN THE EUGENE I HOTEL WITH THE rOLLOWING MEMBERS PRESENT: OR. rURRER, OR. TRIOLO, WINDSOR CALKINS, OR. ! PAUL SMITH, VICTOR MORGAN, DR. HELTERLlNE, MR. RACKLlrr, HOWARD SMITH, MAYOR JO HNSON, . MR. KING, MR. MILLICAN AND MR. riSK. THE MINUTES or THE LAST UEETING WERE READ AND APPROVED. IT WAS MOVED BY OR. SMITH, SECONDED BY OR. HELTERLlNE THAT THE MONTHLY REPORT BE I riLED. MOTION CARRIED. I , A REPORT WAS GIVEN BY MR. riSK RELATIVE TO THE ARMY ENGINEERS PROGRAM ON THE AMAZON DRAINAGE INTO THE rERN RIDGE RESERVO I R. MR. riSK STATED THAT IN TALKING WITH COLONEL WALSH AND HIS EN G I NE E R THAT HE HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT.THERE WOULD BE ONL Y THE SURPLUS WATER I TURNED INTO THE rERN RIDGE RESERVOIR WHICH WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO CONTAMINATE THE RESERVOIR IN ANY MEASURABLE AMOUNT. OR. TRIOLO REPORTED THAT HE HAD BEEN ADVISED BY THE ENGINEERS ! THAT THERE WOULD BE A rURTHER HEARING BY THE ENGINEERS PRIOR TO ANY rUTURE ACTION RELATIVE I TO DRAINING THE AMAZON INTO THE rERN RIDGE RESERVOIR. I I THE SUBJECT or THE MILLRACE BEING POLLUTED WAS BROUGHT UP AND OR. TRIOLO MENTIONED I THAT HE AND OR. MILLER HAD POSTED THE MILLRACE IN AN ENDEAVOR TO ELIMINATE ANY SWIMMING I AS A NUMBER or CASES or ILLNESS HAD BEEN REPORTED rROM THIS C AU S E . THE QUESTION OF i CHLORINATION WAS BROUGHT UP AND IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT rROM AN ECONOMICAL STANDARD IT I WAS NOT PRACTICAL TO ENDEAVOR TO CHLORINATE THE MILLRACE AT THIS TIME, DUE PARTICULARLY TO THE POLLUTION EMINATING rROM THE WILLAMETTE RIVER AND THE SEWAGE BEING DUMPED INTO q. THE TURBIDITY IN THE MILLRACE IS QU I T E HE A V Y , BUT AS THE BANKS BECOME MORE SODDE 0 THE WATER MAY BECOME LESS TURBID IN THE rUTU RE. MR. MILLICAN or THE STATE SANITARY AUTHORITY orrlCE I STATEQ THAT IT WOULD TAKE AN EXORB I TANT AMOUNT or CHLORINE TO ErrECT ANY TYPE or SArE RESULTS AT THIS TIME AS THE CHLORINE DEMAND WOULD BE VERY UNRELIABLE. IT .WAS ALSO BROU GHT OUT THAT IT WOULD COST MORE THAN $2,000.00 PER MONTH rOR THE CHLORINE ALONE IN ADDITION I TO INS TAL L I N G THE CHLORINATING EQUIPMENT AT THIS TIME AND IT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION or I THE BOARD or HEALTH THAT NO ENDEAVOR BE MA DE TO CHLORINATE THE MILLRACE rOR SWIMMING I PURPOSES UNTIL THE POLLUTED CONDITION HAS BEEN CORRECTED THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION or I SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS rOR THE ENTIRE VICINITY. I IT WAS BROUGHT OUT THAT SPRINGrlELD WAS PLANNING TO HAVE ONLY PRIMARY TREATMENT rOR I THEIR SEWAGE DiSPOSAL AND THAT THE POSSIBILITY or A METROPOLITAN SANITARY DISTRICT i , COVERING THIS ENTIRE AREA SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED. I i ! OR. rURRER MOVED THAT INASMUCH AS PARTIALLY TREATED SEWAGE WOULD NOT BE SATlsrACTORY i I rROM A HEALTH STANDPOINT IN MEETING HE AL T H REQUIREMENTS THAT AN ATTEMPT BE MADE TO I PROPERLY rACILITATE COMPLETE TREATMENT rOR THE ENTIRE EUGENE-SPRINGrIELD AREA AND THA T I I THE VARIOUS CITIES AND DISTRICTS INVOLVED MEET IN AN ENDEAVOR TO ESTABLISH A METROPOLITAN I I SANITARY DISTRICT TO SERVE THE ENTIRE AREA AND THAT A COpy or THIS RESOLUTION BE SENT TO i THE STATE SANITARY AUTHORITY, THE CITY COUNCIL or EUGENE, THE CITY COUNCIL or SPRINGFIELD I: AND TO ALL DISTRICTS REPRESENTED IN THIS AREA. THIS MOTION WAS SECONDED BY MR. CALK I NS Ii " II AND PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. OR. HEL TE RLI NE REPORTED THAT THE MILK SUPPLY WAS BECOMING LOW AND THAT 65 OR 70 CANS :/ or MILK WERE BE I NG OBTAINED FROM ASTORIA. HE STATED THIS SHORTAGE TOOK PLACE EVEN THOUGH ELEVEN NEW DAIRIES HAD BEEN OPENED UP LAST MONTH. HE STATED THERE WAS A SURPLUS or GRADE ,I A MILK IN PORTLAND, McMINNVILlE AND ASTORIA, BUT THAT THIS MILK COUL 0 BE ALLOWED TO COME TO Eu GENE ONLY UPON PROPER INSPECTION BY OUR MILK AND MEAT INSPECTION DEPARTMENT AND THAT I THE rARMER'S CREAMERY WILL PAY EXPENSES UP TO $200 PER MONTH TO MAKE THESE INSPECTIONS , OUR I N G THE rEW MONTHS DURING WHICH THE SUPPLY IS LOW. HE ALSO STATED SKIMMED MILK ONLY WAS NEEDED AS THERE EXiSTS A SURPLUS or BU T T ERr AT. IT WAS AGREED BY THE BOARD or HEALTH I THAT THIS PROCEDURE BE RECOMMENDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL rOR APPROVAL. I I OR. HELTERLINE ALSO REPORTED THAT THE CITV or SPRINGrlELD DESIRED MilK AND MEAT I INSPECTION AND HAD AGREED TO PAY $1200 PER YEAR rOR OUR DEPARTMENT TO MAKE THE SE I INSPECTIONS AND THAT THE C I T Y or SPRINGrlELD WOULD ADOPT THE SAME ORDI NANCES AS THOSE I WHICH THE MILK AND MEAT INSPECTIONS ARE BEING MADE UNDER IN EUGENE. IT WAS RECOMMENDED I BY THE BOARD or HEALTH THAT THIS PLAN BE ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL. I OR. TRIOLO REPORTED THAT HE HAD CONSULTED WITH THE CHIEf ENGINEER or THE WEYERHAEUSER I i PULP MILL COMPANY WHO HAD REPORTED THAT IT WILL TAKE CARE or THE SMELL EMINATING rROM THE I I PRESENT PULP OPERATIONS EAST or SPRINGrIELD. THE ENGINEER ASSURED HIM THAT 000 RS rROM I THIS SULPHATE PROCESS COULD BE ELIMINATED AND THAT THE YARE ENDEAVORING TO DETERMINE THE I I UQST .ECONOMICAL .PROCESS TO USE. AND WOULD ENDEAVOR TO DO THIS WITHIN THE NEXT tOUR MONTHS. " i I IT WAS MOVED BY GODLOVE, SECONDED BV HAWN THAT THE RE PO RT or THE BOARD Of HEALTH AND THE RESOLUTION BE RErERRED TO THE HEALTH COMMITTEE or THE COUNCIL. MOTION CARRIEO. I . J~ ... ~ :;,.-;.~./~,~_::..,;;;~,;k~~'~-""~..~__,,,,-,~~ _~__ ~'".c" ,. ,.c","-",-.,."_^,-,_".~,,w. ~ .",'i .......