DALLESPORT WATER DISTRICT
REGULAR-MEETING AGENDA ADDENDUM
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Meeting begins: 2:30 p.m. Pacific time.
Location: Dallesport Community Center, 136 6th Avenue, Dallesport, Washington 98617.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL HEARING ITEM:
Columbia Gorge Regional Airport, City of The Dalles and Klickitat County—show-cause hearing on unpaid water-service and connection obligations; eleven illegal connections and alleged aiding and abetting; Water System Plan and water-law violations; Certificate of Delinquency, whole-property lien, joint-and-several recovery, maximum penalties, corrective action and enforcement.
The Board set this hearing by resolution at its special meeting on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 1:30 p.m., at the District’s main office. W.J. Morris served as Secretary. The Board authorized all necessary and expedient action, including the Certificate of Delinquency, and empowered Special Counsel and W.J. Morris to prepare the necessary notices and papers.
Hearing sequence and action for consideration
Review the Manager’s reports, accounts and supporting record; hear the Airport’s and each owner’s evidence and argument; receive public comment; and consider respondent-specific findings, payment and compliance requirements, the full proposed monetary demands and alternatives, joint-and-several recovery, corrective measures and referrals. The hearing will be called when the item is reached, no earlier than 2:30 p.m.
The Airport and its owners may show cause why they should not be treated under the same lawful payment and compliance requirements as other persons who fail or refuse to pay for water services, and present proof responding to the Manager’s allegations of participation in, or aiding and abetting, the eleven illegal connections and the other mapped violations.
Issued by direction of the Board’s October 20, 2026 action.
DALLESPORT WATER DISTRICT
ADDITITIONAL NOTICE OF SHOW-CAUSE HEARING
At the regular meeting on Wednesday, October 28, 2026
TO: Columbia Gorge Regional Airport; City of The Dalles; Klickitat County; their authorized governing representatives and counsel; and the agents identified in the respondent-specific hearing materials.
Time: Regular meeting begins at 2:30 p.m. Pacific time. The hearing will be called when the agenda item is reached, no earlier than 2:30 p.m.
Place: Dallesport Community Center, 136 6th Avenue, Dallesport, Washington 98617.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Dallesport Water District Board will hold a hearing on the matters below pursuant to the authorizing resolution passed at its special meeting on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 1:30 p.m., at the District’s main office, 302 6th Avenue, Dallesport, Washington.
1. Payment, equal application of requirements, and eleven connections.
The Airport and its owners are afforded an opportunity to show cause why they should not be required to pay and comply with the same lawful water-service, connection and enforcement requirements applied to other persons who fail or refuse to pay for water services. The Manager’s reports identify eleven illegal Airport water connections and unpaid associated charges. The hearing will address the Airport’s and each owner’s own conduct, and the conduct attributed to their agents, in procuring, directing, authorizing, installing, maintaining, aiding or abetting those connections.
Present the permits, District connection allocations, Department of Health approvals, installation and activation records, meter and payment records, contracts, testimony and other evidence supporting any contention that a connection was authorized, a charge paid, a duty performed, an attributed act did not occur, or an asserted liability or remedy does not apply. Identify the particular connection, respondent, period and record for each response.
2. Other violations, Plan departures, and alleged agent conduct.
The hearing includes other source-linked matters: well and water-right transfers; easements and source protection; source, treatment, pumping and fire-flow capacity; treatment-vessel funding and procurement; service and metering; cross-connection and backflow protection; Phase II and hangar-line design, construction, project approval and service authorization; payment, public-money and contractual-performance obligations; and the Manager-reported false statements, official reports or certificates, records conduct and other alleged crimes bearing on the water-law violations and repeated noncompliance.
A respondent may answer each allegation and offer testimony, records and legal argument concerning its own acts, authority, notice, knowledge and responsibility. The Board will receive that response before making the disputed individual determinations within its authority.
3. Appearance, evidence, record access and public comment.
The Airport, City and County may appear through counsel or authorized representatives, present witnesses and documents, dispute particular acts and amounts, identify payments and defenses, and address the proposed findings, remedies and calculations. Comments of counsel, however, are not considered testimony. Written submissions may be delivered before or at the hearing. Identify the respondent, relevant exhibit or item, and supporting document with each response. The Board will also receive public comment before final action and will make and record individual determinations on the evidence under the governing authority.