Two weeks ago, the U.S. Forest Service issued a permit for the City of Bend to lay new pipe. The decision was, in golfing terms, a “mulligan.” A re-do, as a year earlier the City of Bend had applied for a similar permit to replace two decades-old pipes with a single, larger, 20 inch diameter, […]
Central Oregon LandWatch
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Pipe Dreams
When something as unglamorous as a water pipe attracts such attention as Bend’s Surface Water Improvement Project (SWIP) has, it is prudent to ask: Why? Why has the City so doggedly pursued a project that has opposition from both conservative developers and conservation-minded environmentalists? Why have City staff championed a project that has never had […]