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thrown out before a civil trial begins in December. The Central Oregon Irrigation District filed the
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officer for
the Oregon Department of Geology and Mmeral
suit last year, alleging the power company polluted the former Cline Falls hy› droelectric plant west of
Industries, and Sgt. Nathan
Garibay, Deschutes County Sheriff Office’s emergency service manager, spoke to a crowd of more than 50
year lease agreement and failed to maintain the site.
When you open a packet of seeds, you probably don’ t
To be sure, others have
done the worrying for you. That’s because a seed com›
pany that fails to deliver what the package promises might hear from the U.S. Department of Agricul› ture’s Seed Testing and Regulatory Division. They
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For ranchers, Photos by Andy Tullisl The Bulletin
A 12-person Deschutes
ABOVE: The Deschutes River flows past the old water intake buildings downstream from Cline Falls.
County jury will determine whether PacifiCorp is at fault, and if so, how much
it should pay in damages The motion filed by PacifiCorp attorneys fo› cuses on what the lease describes as "electric gen› erating machinery," which the company was entitled
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to take from the site after
ending operations. SeePlant /A6
rangeland By Gosia Wozniacka The Associated Press
PORTLAND For weeks, rancher Darrel
Holliday has rounded up frightened cows and calves off the smoldering hills of Range, a wil›
The buildings at the site of the former Cline Falls Power Plant were built in 1943 after a former power plant was replaced. Theplant was closed in 2006, and the property’s owner, Central Oregon Irrigation District, is suing to have PacifiCorp remove existing contaminants from the property on the Deschutes River, just west of Redmond. The allegations of contamination include: Soil contamination Old lubricants Sediment Oregon Department of
Envir onmental
Quality wants sediment tested
Diesel range organics, chryseneandfluoranthene PCB coolant contamination drained from powerhouse. And Aroclor1254 (in i n former electric amounts below federal and state concern levels) t ransformer yard. found under the turbine drainpipe underneath the powerhouse. +oodeitflurne . .
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wildfires mean lost
the Strawberry Mountain
The legal fightovertheformerCline Falls PowerPlant
the nation’s small squad of "seedpolice"fortheUS-
since 2003. Before that, the
LEFT: The penstock pipe, left, used to direct Deschutes River water into this room, which housed a turbine that’ s now gone from the site of the former Cline Falls hydroelectric plant site west of Redmond.
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don’t want that. Ernest Allen, the divi› sion’s new director, leads
ing Service. The Charlotte resident and his crew have been operating in Gastonia
SeeCascadia /A5
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the plant’s remnants.
worry whether the con› tents will actually produce
the plants you’ re intending to grow.
and resulting tsunami would wreak upon the state.
otherinfrastructure. The irrigation district is seeking millions of dollars in damages to clean up alleged environmental con›
to COID.
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the havoc a 9.0 earthquake
two separate dams and
agriculture GASTONIA, N.C.
Monday night at the High› land Baptist Church about
Corp, the parent company of Pacific Power, filed a motion in May refuting and refusing any responsibility for removing old buildings,
’Seedpolice’ protect our The Charlotte Observer
disaster-minded residents
Attorneys for Pacifi›
tamination and to get rid of
By Karen Sullivan
in the state’ s
Quake recovery. r attles Ali R y an northwest Hansen, the Nevada, earth science B2 information
PacifiCorp is attempting to get part of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against the company
Redmond, violated a 100›
Executive File Aplace
The Cas›
cadia earthquake is coming, two experts said Monday. And Oregon officials predict Central Oregon will play a key role
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entire federal
acres 50 square miles burned last month as a wildfire ravaged the area. The land is now a smoke› filled expanse of blackened
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Sources: Osprey Environmental; Cascade Earth Sciences; Holland & Knight
Pete Smith I The Bulletin
tree sticks and ash.
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nation’s capital, in Belts›
ville, Maryland. Based on the size of this Agriculture Marketing Service operation in a building roughly the size of a typical drug store you might underestimate the
Democratsseek to makebetter use of super PAQ
importance of the work its
By Nicholas Confessore
areas that Republicans have
14 botanists, physiologists, plant pathologists, lab tech›
New York Times News Service
used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the 2016 campaign through such groups. The plans, laid out by the party’s top election lawyers in an emergency request
nicians and investigators
Democrats are laying the groundwork for an ambi›
do. But seeds are a nearly $12 billion a year market in
tious reorganization of their
the United States. That val›
loopholes and legal gray
struggling network of super PACs that would exploit the
Inside Will a new star emerge in GOP debate? Orwill Donald Trump once again run the show?AS
creation of a host of new
lican presidential candidates
super PACs tailored to in› dividual House and Senate
this election cycle, helping prospective candidates es›
candidates.
tablish and raise money for
filed with the Federal Elec›
But the filing also suggests super PACs before they offi› that Democrats would, if cially declare their intention
tion Commission on Friday,
they are allowed, seek to use
would pave the way for the
tactics pioneered by Repub›
to run.
SeeSuper PACs/A5
ue puts America at the top of a $45 billion a year glob› al seed market, with China
and France in second and third place, according to the International Seed Federation. SeeSeed /A4
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