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Water Storage Improvement Projects
Access to clean water is vital to our community.
EWEB is hard at work making sure safe, reliable water continues to flow even as critical infrastructure ages and new challenges arise. In the next decade, we plan to construct new water storage facilities near 40th Ave. and Patterson St. and replace the water storage systems at EWEB's College Hill and Hawkins Hill sites. The projects will be built to seismic and contemporary operating standards, providing more than 40 million gallons of resilient, safe water storage.
Nov. 3, 2021

Dear East 40th Neighbors,
EWEB staff and contractors met on the job site early this morning to discuss yesterday's blasting incident and next steps.
We expect a full Root Cause Analysis Report from the contractor shortly. The analysis will identify what happened and corrective actions necessary to prevent future incidents. 

Blasting work is postponed until the root cause analysis is complete.

However, we have allowed some work on the site to resume today:

  • An excavator is filling the holes left from yesterday's work. This is a safety measure to prevent workers from stepping and falling in the holes.

  • Workers are rebuilding the detention pond near the site entrance. This is to improve erosion and drainage at the site.

We will send another update later today regarding the blasting incident, next steps, and upcoming work at the site.
Contact us with questions
If you have questions or input, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the project team at
541-685-7899 or water.storage@eweb.org. Emails sent to this address will reach:

  • Laura Farthing, Project Manager/Senior Civil Engineer
  • Jen Connors, Communications Supervisor
  • Jeannine Parisi, Customer Relationship Manager
  • Wally McCullough, Water Engineering Supervisor