I want to know: Who pays for backflow prevention and why?
Question: Why do some residents of Coos Bay and North Bend have to pay for backflow prevention into the public water system and others do not? Answer: Because only some homes and businesses are at risk of contaminating the water system. Backflow prev...
 1.6K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 903.0 I want to know: Who pays for backflow prevention and why?
Question: Why do some residents of Coos Bay and North Bend have to pay for backflow prevention into the public water system and others do not? Answer: Because only some homes and businesses are at risk of contaminating the water system. Backflow prev...
1.6K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 903.0 I want to know: Who pays for backflow prevention and why?
Question: Why do some residents of Coos Bay and North Bend have to pay for backflow prevention into the public water system and others do not? Answer: Because only some homes and businesses are at risk of contaminating the water system. Backflow prev...
1.6K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 903.0 Davis places at judo competition
Carter Davis of the Southwestern Oregon Community College Judo Club competed in the 2009 Rainier Cup Judo Championships in Lakewood, Wash., last weekend. The event drew about 200 competitors from Oregon and Washington. Davis brought home a bronze med...
1.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 780.0 Davis places at judo competition
Carter Davis of the Southwestern Oregon Community College Judo Club competed in the 2009 Rainier Cup Judo Championships in Lakewood, Wash., last weekend. The event drew about 200 competitors from Oregon and Washington. Davis brought home a bronze med...
1.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 780.0 City might have legal right to cut sewer service
The Coquille Tribe doesn t think the city can do it. But a representative of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the city of North Bend, in its lawsuit against the tribe, just might be able to legally shut off sewer services to The Mi...
4.3K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 780.0 Complications delay 10th Street project
Delays have pushed back the reopening of Coos Bay s 10th Street as the Coos Bay-North Bend Water Board completes its work on underground pipes. The original plan was to get traffic moving along the road by July 17. That s not going to happen for a co...
1.7K - Jul. 16, 2009; scored 903.0 Still a bargain at $2 more a month
If you need evidence that consumers are spoiled, look no farther than your car's cup holder. Do you see a bottle of water? Did you pay a dollar for it? More? Compared with Dasani or Aquafina, municipal water is an amazing bargain. Pure, plentiful H2...
1.9K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 780.0 Water rates will rise
COOS BAY - Summer usually brings sunshine and more visitors to the South Coast. It also means greater water demands for the Coos Bay-North Bend Water Board's treatment plant. The 18-year-old facility can treat up to eight million gallons of water a d...
3.1K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 903.0 Water rates will rise
COOS BAY - Summer usually brings sunshine and more visitors to the South Coast. It also means greater water demands for the Coos Bay-North Bend Water Board's treatment plant. The 18-year-old facility can treat up to eight million gallons of water a d...
3.9K - Jul. 2, 2009; scored 903.0 Community Sports: Fast Breaks for June 13: Scholarship run includes half-marathon
The 15th-annual Jenny s Catching Slough Classic includes the South Coast s first half-marathon. The event, which also features a 12-kilometer run, a 5-kilometer run/walk, and a 1-mile kids run, will be held on Saturday, June 20, at the intersection o...
4.9K - Jun. 13, 2009; scored 605.0 Detour ahead: Neighbors fume over new route
COOS BAY - The window in Dolores Salcedo's living room rattled Monday afternoon. A sport utility vehicle zoomed past; its stereo bass thumping. The retired nurse sighed and said that's just a hint of what it's been like the past week and a half on Ei...
4.1K - Jun. 10, 2009; scored 1000.0 Detour ahead: Neighbors fume over new route
COOS BAY - The window in Dolores Salcedo's living room rattled Monday afternoon. A sport utility vehicle zoomed past; its stereo bass thumping. The retired nurse sighed and said that's just a hint of what it's been like the past week and a half on Ei...
4.3K - Jun. 9, 2009; scored 1000.0 Water resources topic of talk Saturday
The League of Women Voters of Coos County will host a talk this Saturday, as part of the group's study of the Fresh Water Resources of Coos County, which will be published later this year. Coos Bay/North Bend Water Board General Manager Rob Schab ...
0.8K - Apr. 2, 2009; scored 780.0 Wind and rain cause road delays
Sunday s blustery weather played havoc with drivers when a number of fallen trees and mudslides blocked area roadways. A rock slide that closed state Highway 126, 8 miles west of Walton on Sunday and still was blocking the highway this morning. Drive...
3.1K - Mar. 16, 2009; scored 605.0 Flushing money
Most people wouldn t treat rain the same as sewage. But on stormy winter days, South Coast sewage plants do just that. They process millions of gallons of otherwise clean water, which seeps in through leaky pipes and gutters, funneling it into sewers...
3.3K - Feb. 28, 2009; scored 956.0 Tonight's film tackles water infrastructure
The Coos Bay-North Bend Water Board and cities of Coos Bay and North Bend are showing a documentary about water infrastructure tonight at Southwestern Oregon Community College. Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure raises issues about...
1.0K - Feb. 11, 2009; scored 605.0 Siren test is Sunday
Coos Bay and North Bend residents will hear a tsunami warning on Sunday. The cities of Coos Bay and North Bend and the Coos Bay-North Bend Water Board will test a tsunami warning system, Water Board General Manager Rob Schab said in a press release....
0.7K - Jan. 3, 2009; scored 780.0 | 
