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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the chief regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for protecting and enhancing the state's natural resources and managing sanitary and toxic waste disposal. The agency employs approximately 700 scientists, engineers, technicians, administrators, and ...
The wastewater is collected by a vast network of more than 800 miles (1,300 km) of sewer lines and 39 pump stations and routed to one of four treatment plants—Durham, Rock Creek, Hillsboro and Forest Grove. Ten percent of the wastewater treated by Clean Water Services is used for irrigation and in area wetlands during the summer months. [14]
This is a list of official departments, divisions, commissions, boards, programs, and agencies of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon, including regional commissions and boards to which it is officially a party. Where a listing is that of a subdivision of another agency, the parent agency is indicated in parentheses.
The DEQ is delaying the timeline it previously provided for soil cleanup of the first seven homes contaminated by J.H. Baxter wood processing plant. Oregon DEQ adjusts timeline for cleanup of ...
Outstanding penalties against the owner of the now-shuttered west Eugene wood treatment plant now exceed $305,000.
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The new DEQ surface water plan is modeled after an approach Michigan regulators have taken to address PFOA and PFOS that were being sent from industrial plants, through public wastewater treatment ...
The Oregon State Sanitary Authority (OSSA) was the first agency in the U.S. state of Oregon that was charged with protecting the environment. [1] In 1938, Oregon voters, by a three-to-one margin, approved an initiative to regulate water pollution and to create an enforcement agency under the jurisdiction of the Oregon State Board of Health.