Recent Heavy Rain Leads to Sewer Overflow in Willamette River

Signs have been posted warning people to avoid contact with the water in the Willamette River due to potentially high levels of bacteria.

Waters of the Willamette

(SALEM, Ore.) - Recent rainfall combined with saturated ground conditions have resulted in the City of Salem overflowing diluted raw sewage into the Willamette River. The gates at the North River Road diversion structure were opened at approximately 11:35 AM.

When the ground becomes saturated, groundwater enters the sanitary sewer from cracks and holes in the pipes in addition to footing drains and other sources of extraneous water from private property.

When this occurs, the ability of the sewer system to transport sewerage to the water pollution control facility is exceeded and the system becomes surcharged. When these conditions become severe enough, the gates must be opened to avoid damaging property from sanitary sewer backups and basement flooding.

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Signs have been posted warning people to avoid contact with the water in the Willamette River due to potentially high levels of bacteria. The signs will be removed once the bacteria levels return to normal.

Source: City of Salem

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It takes adequate infrastructure funding... which requires adequate tax revenue... which the shortsighted selfish voters refuse to allow to be provided. They are delusionally convinced, usually by anti-tax hucksters like Bill Sizemore and his crew, that the government already has these hidden magic pots of money that for some reason it refuses to spend and until all those hidden magic pots of money are spent, without actuallt proving they actually exist in the first place, any and all taxes should be reduced and no increases allowed. The selfish and shortsighted of society go along with this because the sophistry seems to them to be in their immediate best interests... but in actuality and in the long term it is in no one's best interests other than the interests of the anti-tax hucksters like Sizemore as we see from examples like these constant inadequate sewer system issues, the bridges and buildings and roads falling a part from neglect etc. Some people just refuse to wake up to reality. Ah well...

I am so sick of this happening when we have a rain storm! What does it take to increase the capacity of this facility?!

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