Craig: Welcome to our Five on 5, pleased to welcome back Paula Brown, the Director of
Ashland Public Works.
Good to see you.
Paula: Nice to see you too Craig.
Craig: So, it's interesting, you've been out of the position for nearly a decade, but
back in it for the last few months.
How is that kind of getting back into it going?
Paula: You know it's one of those things everybody says 'I wish I knew then what
I know now.'
I'm there, and I get to do that.
So, it's exciting, it's an exciting time for Ashland, there's a lot going on and
I get to be a part of that and I get to help people pull things together and move things
forward.
Craig: We've got a lot to talk about today.
One of the things that, with the weather, and with the topography of Ashland and everything,
you guys have a lot of water that comes through when those storms come and through the Plaza
and those areas.
Is there, you know, water conservation in the summers, is there a solution to these
extreme problems?
Paula: Well, you know, solutions is how you manage that water.
We're always going to have water, sometimes we have more than we want and flooding happens,
we're managing those floods and we're continuing to look at solutions through storm
water management.
We continue to manage lack of water too through conservation efforts and the City of Ashland
has done quite well with conservation.
So our needs for water are there, and we'll continue to have those, but we get new opportunities
as well.
Craig: And another part of water that we'll be sure to talk about and got a lotta questions
on, is the possibility of a new water treatment plant.
Is that something you guys are seriously considering or is that a…
Paula: Absolutely, absolutely.
I think you know, our existing water treatment plant, very narrow canyon right below the
dam and we've got a lot of issues with that.
Whether it's fire, landslides, flooding, you name it.
City council has given us the nod to pursue a brand new water treatment plant, new location.
Much safer, less risky for the city and really lets us do it right and do it right for the
city as we've always done.
There's always been challenges with water.
Craig: And of course this is public process.
Where are you guys at in the timeline and in that process?
Paula: So we're just, we started the process several years ago with a smaller plant which
really isn't, doesn't meet the needs for the city of Ashland so we're looking at
a 7 and a half million gallon plant at the lower granite pit and if you're in Ashland
you know where that is, but it's not too far away, but it's out of that narrow canyon
and so we're now looking at going into pre-design for this plant and we'll continue that process.
We'll go through the city council every step of the way and as people are interested,
we'll make sure we have open houses and things like that as well.
Craig: Ok, we're gonna take a quick commercial break; we'll have much more in moment.
Stay with us.
Craig: Welcome back to our Five on 5 again we're here with Paula Brown the Director
of Ashland Public Works.
So we're talking about a new water treatment plant and how important that is for the city.
What kind of cost would we be looking at?
Paula: They're expensive, no matter what you do now construction is expensive, but
we're looking at 7 and a half million gallons, probably in the neighborhood of 22, 24, 25
million even.
We'll look at preliminary design and that's the next phase for the city council, they
will authorize that design we're out for bid soon, probably in the next couple of weeks
and then they will authorize that design process and, as I said before, authorize every step
of the way.
So we'll go through pre-design, final design, construction, all of that takes about 2 years
with all the permitting and everything that we have to do before we even start construction.
Craig: Extensive process.
So you guys are gonna be talking to the council again at that next step.
Paula: Absolutely.
And we want them.
We want our community to know, be proud of what we're doing and the decisions that
the city council and the mayor are making on behalf of the city.
Craig: Ok and what about waste water treatment?
Is that an issue going on in the city right now?
Paula: You know I started with the city with waste water in 1995 and so we're still talking
waste water too.
Craig: [Laughs] Paula: Solving the temperature problem, so
anytime you release water into streams of the United States, which we do, we all do,
temperature is a problem.
So we've got a multi-prong approach to solving the temperature problem and that's also
in front of the city council.
We're looking at outfall relocation, so taking that waste water from Ashland Creek
into Bear Creek that's one piece of it, wetlands, expanding our oxidation ditch which
is the treatment process itself and temperature credits and shading projects.
So all of those things contribute to the environment and to what Ashland really wants to do and
help the environment along too.
Craig: Alright, good to see you, thanks for being here.
Paula: Nice to see you too Craig: We appreciate it.
Stay with us, we'll be right back.
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