Warm Springs Celebrates Funding For New Water Treatment Plant
5/23/23
Warm Springs is getting $28 million in federal funding to build a new water treatment plant. Oregon U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley visited the site Monday, along with tribal leaders.
“There is a shameful legacy, right here in this spot of Oregon,” said Wyden, “The burst pipes, the boil water notices, year after year of failing water treatment.” He added, the funding ensures the community has safe, reliable drinking water, “That horrendous legacy of the past where families would suffer here, and people all across Oregon would get up in the morning and they’d be able to have clean water for their families. We’re on our way to that kind of future right here; and it is long, long overdue.”
