Story by Rodger Nichols for Gorge Country Media
The Dalles City Council met last night. The were three big items on the agenda. The first involved permission for the Pinewood Apartments, formerly known as the Golf Court Apartments, to connect to the sewer line that serves the Discovery Center. Their septic system is failing and there’s no suitable place on their property to put a new system. The owners of the apartments have agreed to pay for all the costs of constructing a private sewer system for the apartments and for extending it to the pump station near the Discovery Center.
The second was to give the city manager more leeway to approve project change orders up to $500,000 or 20 percent of the original project cost, whichever is smaller.
And, financial consultants presented a 10-year, $73 million capital improvement plan for wastewater facilities, recommending 6.5% annual rate increases.