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PCJWSA Wastewater Master Plan nearly ready for approval
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By CHELSEA YARNELL for the Sun
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Tillamook County Public Works installs series of wayfinding signs paid for by TLT funds Survey to ask residents how much they trust government to provide flood safety Portland State University is conducting a survey in Tillamook County in its effort to gauge how much people trust the government’s efforts to provide safety from floods. The survey will select residents randomly and mail those individuals postcards with a link and QR code in the coming months. The results will be sent to federal, state and local agencies so they have an opportunity to learn how to earn the public’s trust. Those participating will have a chance to win $100 for their efforts. As part of the Tillamook County survey (as well as a similar one in Coos County), officials are reportedly seeking
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to understand community members’ willingness to pay for flood mitigation projects. There will also be an experiment conducted in Tillamook County that’s being billed as a chance to “measure perceptions of flooding risks and levels of trust in organizations that provide flood mitigation information.” Organizers say community buy-in is important because without it, “efforts to reduce flooding and limit flood damage are much less effective.” In this outreach, the research team is seeking to answer four questions: • What flood-mitigation options do community members prefer?
• How can we measure community members’ trust in the organizations providing flood mitigation support? • How does the trust that the community members have in organizations providing flood mitigation information affect their wlllingness to support or adopt the recommended policies and practices? • How does a community member’s perception of the likelihood and severity of flooding affect their acceptance of flood mitigation measures and belief in the need for those measures? To learn more about the project, visit its Facebook page, TIDES Project, or email jriedl@pdx.edu.
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s the year comes to a close, the Pacific City Joint Water-Sanitary Authority is still waiting to approve the final version of their Wastewater Master Plan. “We got the draft back. The timeframe for review and comment has come and gone,” Authority Manager John Wesely reported to the Board of Directors at their Dec. 13 meeting. Wesely said that he promptly consolidated all comments from the Board, as well as his own, and sent them back to engineering firm Parametrix, which has been preparing the Master Plan. “Parametrix is now working on these revisions, I don’t think it will take them long,” Wesley said. A finalized plan was scheduled to be presented and approved by the end of the year. However, a piece of the plan was missing. “We had an in-depth, third-party consultant do a System Development Charge plan that was scoped for the master plan,” Wesley said. “It is scoped in our agreement; however, Parametrix says it’s not unusual to pull that from a master plan. It may take one more extension on the contract to get this piece done or accept it as a supplemental document.” Wesely suggested that the Board allow a one-month extension on the contract to allow Parametrix to work with the third-party consultants before integrating the SDC analysis into the Wastewater Master Plan. “On the wastewater side, the SDC analysis is far less consequential than on the water side. Because of that, I’m inclined to agree with a reasonable timeframe to get that last supplemental document done,” Wesely said. “Our list of projects on the wastewater side are more modest than on the water side, and our financing for those projects is more certain than it is on the water side.” The Board made no official action to extend the contract but urged Wesely to request a finalized Master Plan as soon as possible. “Once again, we find Parametrix late on their scope of work and that doesn’t make me happy….they’ve once again left us hanging, but we don’t have a choice,” Board Chair Tom Donohue said. “I suggest that you contact Parametrix and ask them to get this done in a reasonable amount of time and that the Board is not happy with their performance.”
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