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. 4, 2021

Dear East 40th Neighbors,
As you head into the weekend, here's a quick update on work at the site.
Contractors will be paving the entrance to the site on Friday, Nov. 5.

The paving is intended as an additional erosion control measure to reduce the amount of sediment leaving the site and entering the gutter.
 
Since the entrance will be unavailable during paving, there will be some trucks parked on Patterson St. on Friday.

Also on Friday, drilling work will resume.

Several more blasting mats have been delivered to the site as part of the contractor's additional safety measures following the Nov. 2 blasting incident. Once we have verified all remedies are done and in place, we will authorize the contractor to resume blasting. At this time, we expect blasting to resume on Tuesday, Nov. 9.
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