If these conditions are present for several days, cyanobacteria can multiply to form large blooms that can cover an entire lake or collect in smaller areas.
Water Quality American Rescue Plan Act Funds (ARPA)Ĭonditions that lead to HABs are most common in the late summer and early fall.Utah Lake Preservation Fund Grant Program.Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grants (OSG) Program.Community’s Guide to Project Assistance.Utah’s Priority Lakes and Reservoirs 1999.Mining Inventory and Source Identification.Analysis of Water Quality and Sediments.Continuing Education (CEU) Requirements.Wasteload Analysis for Developing Permit Limits.Motor Vehicle Waste Disposal Wells (MVWDs).Ground Water Quality Protection Program.Ground Water Protection/Underground Injection Control.Quality Assurance & Quality Control Program.POTW Nutrient Removal Cost Impact Study.Statewide Nutrient Criteria Development.Utah’s Approach for Addressing Nutrient Pollution.Making Effective Public Comments to DEQ.Small Business Environmental Assistance Program.Waste Management and Radiation Control Board.Councilors should pass the fee change or come up with some other way to save the pond. But it is a small amount for a community benefit. We don’t expect ratepayers to rejoice at paying $8 more a year. It might add about $8 a year to a household electric bill in Bend, according to one estimate. That fee would be passed on to Bend ratepayers. The best option we have heard would be a change in the city franchise fee on Pacific Power, which owns the dam and that creates the sediment backup. The better choice would be to come with up a funding mechanism to pay to dredge the pond. They could do it, though it would mean cutting money spent on other parks, roads or public safety. The park district and the city haven’t seemed all that interested in chipping in the estimated $6.4 million to dredge and maintain the pond. The city has long-term plans to spend more than $11 million to fix that.īut without dredging, the pond will gradually look more and more like a mudflat with a river channel in the middle. The pond shouldn’t be a city stormwater dump.
City stormwater and sediment also pour directly into the pond through about a dozen city pipes. It is going to restore the riverbank and redo trails along Mirror Pond for $6.5 million. The Bend Park & Recreation District is taking care of that. The pond’s issues aren’t limited to dredging. They should find a way to pay for the dredging. And nobody seems all that eager to pay to dredge it before it becomes mostly mudflat.īend city councilors are scheduled to discuss the issue on Wednesday. But the pond that is so emblematic of Bend is in trouble. More than a century ago, Bend’s Mirror Pond was formed by a dam in the Deschutes River. This article was published on: 09/17/18 12:00 AM
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