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Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com

December 26, 2014

iN mis aonioN: L ocal • Health@Fitness • Outdoors • TV $ < QUICIC HITS

TouringBaKerCity's NewWater Treatment Plant

Good Day Wish To A Subscriber

Local, 3A The North Powder FFA placed10th at the State Veterinarian Science Career Development Event Dec. 6 at Crater High School in Central Point, near Medford. The team members included Maria Keller, Tina Combs, Kachira Phillips, and Casey Neske. This is the first time North Powder has taken a team to this contest.

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A special good day to Herald subscriber Art Kreger of Baker City.

IDAHO POWER'S PROPOSED BOARDMAN-TO-HEMINGWAY POWER LINE

• New crypto-inactivating UV light facility is up and running

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Oregon, 6A WASHINGTONEarlier this month, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced his intention to introduce sweeping anti-discrimination legislation that would provide federal protections for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender individuals. The bill, which Merkley plans to introduce sometime after the 114th Congress is sworn in Jan. 6, will be designed to protect members of the LGBT community from unequal treatment in such areas as employment, housing and access to public accommodations.

• That's the preferred route for the line as outlined in a draft environmental impact statement written by BLM By Jayson Jacoby llacoby©bakercityherald.com

BRIEFING

Scouts picking up Christmas trees on 3an. 3 Baker City Scouts will be picking up Christmas trees the morning of Jan. 3 starting at 8:30. Residents can leave their tree near the curb of the street that morning. Scouts will deliver trees to Baker Sanitary Service, which will turn the trees into mulch. Donations are appreciated, but not required. They may be placed in an envelope attached to the front door of the residence. Contributions go toward supplies, camping and other activities as needed by the Scout units. The money remains with the local Scouting unit that picks up the tree. More information is available by calling Ed Hibbard at 541-519-6806.

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Jake Jones, Baker City watershed manager, exits the UV treatment center control room. One of three reactors is in the foreground. By Joshua Dillen ldill an©bakercityherald.com

The fi nal phase in Baker City's war against cryptosporidium is complete. Crypto oocysts in the municipal water supply are doomed. The city is fighting the guttwisting bug with light. Deadly ultraviolet iUVl light, that is.

A new $3 million UV water treatment plant is up and running. The facility and its maiming of oocysts that may be in the city's water supply — the oocyst is the shell that protects crypto from conventional disinfectants such as chlorine, which the city adds to its water — is the final blow to the microscopiccritter.

The plant went online last month. It replaced a temporary and portable UV treatment system that had been in use since March 2014. Cryptooocysts willbedeactivated — not necessarily killed — as aresultofbeing bathed in

UV light. See UV Light/Page 8A

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Chlorinated raw water enters the plant via three pipes at near left, then up, over and down to treatment in the ultraviolet light reactors before flowing up, over and down again to a holding reservoir for residential use.

35/23 Snow showers

2014 will bid a frigid farewell By Jayson Jacoby

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Snow starting in the afternoon

The proposed route of Idaho Power Company's transmission line linking Oregon and Idaho would put the 500-kilovolt line, suspended by towers ranging in height from 110 to 195feet,asclose as1.1m ilestothe Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. That route, referred toasthe "proposed action" in the draft environmental impact statement iDEISl the BLM released last week, routesthe power lineeastofthe Interpretive Center, which is along Highway 86 about five miles east of Baker City. The line's closest proximity to the Center would be about 1.1 miles southeast of the popular visitor attraction, which is operated by theBLM and opened in May 1992. However, another possible route puts the Boardman-to-Hemingway power line on the west side of the Interpretive Center, between it and Baker Valley. Idaho Power, which unveiled the Boardman-to-Hemingway iB2Hl project in 2007, has estimated the 305-mile line, ifbuilt, wouldn't be finished until 2020 at the earliest. The project is named for the two substations at its ends — one that would be built by Portland General Electric near Boardman, and the other Idaho Power's existing Hemingway substation near Melba, Idaho.

TO D A T Issue 97, 20 pages

Calendar....................2A Classified............. 1B-4B Comics....................... 5B

If you welcomed Baker City's balmy December as an early Christmas gift, the month's final week might seem more like a lump of coal. Although you'd probably like to have the coal if you had a stove to burn it in. The Christmas Eve snowstorm might have been the vanguard of an all-out assault of arctic air that could hang around until the first week of 2015. Today will be relatively tranquil. But another storm is forecast to bring about 2 to 4 inches of snow from Saturday afternoonthrough Sunday morning. Then comes the real cold. On Tuesday the temperature might not rise above the teens. The next morning it coulddip a degreeor tw obelow zero. See Frigid/Page2A

C o m m u nity News ....3A He a lth ...............5C & 6C O b i t uary.....................2A Sp o r ts ........................7A C r o ssword........BB & BB J a y son Jacoby..........4A Opi n i on......................4A T e l e vision .........3C & 4C D e a r Abby.................6B Lot t ery Results..........2A Out d o o rs..........1C & 2C We a t h er.....................6B

Full forecast on the back of the B section. 8

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