Uphill battle: Financing for plan to relocate water treatment plant faces ballot test
Past the Wonder trailhead, at the top of a road just wide enough to permit two-way traffic, Ashland’s Water Treatment Plant is a sprawl of low buildings filling the available flat ground where mountains come shoulder to shoulder. Ashland’s Public Works Director Scott Fleury gave Ashland.news a tour of the facility to explain how it works and why the city decided to take out a loan of up to $75 million to replace it. The post Uphill battle: Financing for plan to relocate water treatment plant faces ballot test appeared first on Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News.
Viewpoint: Protect Ashland’s drinking water; vote ‘yes’ on Measure 15-234
Bob Kaplan: Tucked into a narrow canyon, our current drinking water plant is vulnerable to floods, landslides and wildfire, and there’s no space to treat harmful toxins that are more frequent as our summers get warmer and drier. The post Viewpoint: Protect Ashland’s drinking water; vote ‘yes’ on Measure 15-234 appeared first on Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News.