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THE REGISTER-GUARD CITY/REGION MONDAY, JULY 17, 2000 <br /> <br /> Wastewater <br /> system gets <br /> huge relief <br /> [] Pollution: OpenhOuses <br /> are planned to ease concerns "' <br /> about the $30 million project. <br /> <br /> By MATT COOPER <br /> The Register-Guard .. <br /> Civil engineering 101: Grab* a' sock. <br /> Push on the toe with a finger, inverting <br /> the sOCk as yOU run it through, ~y, a <br /> piece Of old pipe.'.' <br /> Congratulations -- you've just simu- <br /> lated one of the methods engineers will <br /> use during the next 10 years to try to <br /> keep Old Man Winter from. flooding pipes <br /> with his worst storms. <br /> <br /> "'wastewater :flows, -- thatYS"~.h~n a'.~- <br />I ' .ter rainstom dumps 'stormwater into a · - ,. <br />~ system meant, only to transpo~ ~.wastewa- <br />"ter ~- Le., whatever leaves Our: shower <br />- sfalls, restaurant'restrooms and industri- <br />· During a. big storn~.', the Eugene- <br />-: :Springfield Water .Pollution Control Facil- <br />ity in north Eugene'ca~_~ .~andle'!7..5'mil- <br />~ lion gallons per: da~ of,~wastewater:.- <br />· 'enough to put downtoTM Eugen~ under. a <br />' But When fl0w exceed~about 200.'mil- <br />. non gailons periday..as it:..:.might during a <br />winter .storm, ..some of ~t was~ewater <br />· d°eSn'[. get. treated, it g~...-diverted <br />~ometimes "back into y~..ur:'~.ement, <br /> <br /> <br />