Warm Springs Indian Reservation
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Boiling in Warm Springs

Damages to Warm Springs’ Water Treatment Plant aren’t as dire as first expected, but long-term solutions are still distant
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

The Warms Springs Water Treatment Plant is back online after an underground electrical fire disabled it on March 19. The reservation’s utilities department issued an emergency water conservation notice and deployed portable showers, toilets and bottled water while repairs were arranged.  Originally the utilities department expected that repairs could take up to two months, but […]

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Water Drive for Warm Springs

Local activists are holding a collection drive to replenish that supply
Avatar photo by Nicole Vulcan

A recent boil-water notice has been lifted for the Warm Springs Indian Reservation—but because the reservation has now depleted its supplies of emergency water, local activists are holding a collection drive to replenish that supply. The Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity is partnering with the Central Oregon Diversity Project and the Central Oregon Peacekeepers to collect drinking […]

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Tested in Central Oregon

Warm Springs becomes hotbed for drone tech
Brian Jennings

Outside Kah-Nee-Ta Resort on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, parking lots that once catered to casino goers are now empty—leaving a great deal of unused space. To Aurolyn Stwyer, that swath of parking lot represents opportunity. Stwyer has a vision of turning one paved section—larger than a football field—into a ‘drone amusement park’ where manufacturers […]

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