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OR Port of Morrow Commission April 5, 2024

Tainted waters update: Port of Morrow gets hit with another DEQ fine

Port of Morrow Commission and Oregon DEQ enforcement record on industrial and data center wastewater nitrate contamination in the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area (April 5, 2024).

Jurisdiction Boardman, OR
Governing Body Port of Morrow Commission
Meeting Date April 5, 2024
Extracted Clips 2 clips · 2 opposed · 1 supporting
Tax Abatements Water Power & Grid Zoning
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Archived meeting broadcast · KGW News Ready at Clip 1 (0:41 to 1:08) · Umatilla Economic Development and Applicant Presentation
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Tainted waters update: Port of Morrow gets hit with another DEQ fine

Port of Morrow Commission · April 5, 2024

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2 verified timestamped clips extracted chronologically from the closed caption record. Select any clip to play that exact window in the master player or copy a canonical clip link.

  1. Clip 1 · 0:41 Umatilla Economic Development and Applicant Presentation Developer Representative In support transcribed from the official recording
    Tax Abatements Water Power & Grid Zoning

    Public hearing record before Port of Morrow Commission in Boardman, OR.

    "Oregon the problem with the port comes from nitrate contaminated water it's put out by food processors on the port property the companies put out more water than the port can store so the port uses pipes and sprinklers to spread the nitrate water on nearby Farm Fields if it puts out too much water the water can easily seep down through the sandy soil and reach the aquifer below that's a problem because thousands of people"

    YouTube at 0:41 ↗
  2. Clip 2 · 1:13 Umatilla County & Port of Morrow Commission Member Elected Official In support transcribed from the official recording
    Tax Abatements Water Power & Grid Zoning

    Public hearing record before Port of Morrow Commission in Boardman, OR.

    "how much water the port can put out especially during the non growing season that's the time between the 1 of November and the end of February that's a dangerous time because there are fewer plants to suck up the nitrogen being spread with the water on the fields the latest series of fines total 72 $27,000 and covers 867 different times that the port put too much water on the ground during the non growing"

    YouTube at 1:13 ↗

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Statement and primary filing Boardman and Umatilla, OR Hearing Record → Project Dossier: 1547-critical-systems-realty-ptor1-portland-or → Project Dossier: aligned-pdx-01-hillsboro-or → Project Dossier: amazon-data-centers-in-lower-umatilla-basin-or → Project Dossier: amazon-eastern-oregon-data-centers-morrow-or → Project Dossier: apple-prineville-campus-or → Project Dossier: boxminer-io-la-pine-industrial-park-or →
Water tax_incentives Litigation
Column A · Dated Statement
Port of Morrow and Columbia River Enterprise Zone Officials Port of Morrow and Enterprise Zone Board Representatives
Venue: Columbia River and Umatilla Enterprise Zone Tax Abatement Approvals
"Enterprise Zone property tax abatements for Amazon Web Services data centers in Morrow and Umatilla Counties drive regional prosperity while industrial cooling water is safely recycled through port wastewater land application systems."
KGW News
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Column B · Primary Government Record
Oregon DEQ Mutual Agreement and Order (Port of Morrow Wastewater Violations) and 2026 Umatilla Data Center Pause
Oregon DEQ Enforcement Penalties (WQ/IWR ER-2022-2024) · Umatilla 2026 Permitting Moratorium
Agency or Venue: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and City of Umatilla
"Oregon DEQ levied over $2.4 million in repeated environmental fines against the Port of Morrow for dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of nitrogen laden industrial and data center wastewater onto fields above the contaminated Lower Umatilla Basin aquifer, followed by a 2026 municipal permitting pause in Umatilla."
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