The camping experience won’t be possible without donations from people and businesses in the community.
Credit: Family YMCA of Marion & Polk Counties
Family YMCA of Marion & Polk Counties Author: Christine Pitawanich Updated: 8:12 PM PDT May 26, 2021
SALEM, Ore. There’s an important effort underway to help kids who lost their homes or were affected by the wildfires last year. The idea: raise money in order to give kids an opportunity to have some fun at summer camp.
In the Santiam Canyon, progress is slow, but it’s progress.
“Slowly working out of the emergency phase of this disaster and going into the long-term recovery, said Detroit mayor Jim Trett. We have people that are moving back into town. Now we have some kids back up here.
Detroit is a city defined by water.
Water from the North Santiam River, surrounding streams and Detroit Lake have been key to the city’s development and economy.
But for 7 1/2 months following the wildfires, Detroit was without drinking water.
Over the past few years, Detroit had focused on replacing the city’s water distribution system, some of which was part of the original town and moved with the city in 1952.
It was so plagued with problems, including leaks, that the city was losing more than a million gallons of treated water each month.
Between 2019 and the summer of 2020, the distribution pipes were replaced in a $3.2 million project funded by a grant from Business Oregon and raising water rates to $60 from $45 per month for customers.
A particularly dry winter and spring is leading to low water levels in the Willamette River and, by extension, all the tributaries and reservoirs dotting the Mid-Willamette Valley. That means impacts to Oregonâs recreation opportunities and possibly larger impacts on water quality and wildlife such as fish.
âThis is a significant year because weâre talking about low water levels,â said John Morgan, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). âWeâve had low water levels in the past and itâs obviously affected recreation, but we also need to meet our flow targets and some other obligations.â
Detroit, a lakeside Oregon town hit hard by wildfire, faces a new worry
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ODOT shot drone footage Tuesday, Sept. 22 along Hwy. 22, including this view of fire-ravaged Detroit.
DETROIT, Ore. (KTVZ) The mayor of Detroit, a lakeside town ravaged by a wildfire last fall, is worried that a plan to lower the risk of a large earthquake causing the nearby dam to fail will hurt its tourist industry.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has determined that a large earthquake could cause the spillway gates of the Detroit Dam to buckle, resulting in massive flooding, has announced it will try to minimize the danger by reducing the maximum height of the lake by five feet starting in April.