Lake Oswego's $100 million floating sewer line hits major hitch

Work on the pipe, mandated by DEQ, won't start this year as expected By Lee van der Voo The Lake Oswego Review, Jul 25, 2008, Updated Jul 25, 2008 (1 Reader comment) Two contractors associated with Lake Oswego’s $100 million sewer project say the project will not begin in September as planned. Instead, they say, the job could be delayed for as long as a year, apparently due to a breakdown in contract negotiations. The one-of-a-kind floating sewer pipe is still in its design phase. Once constructed, it will carry effluent through Oswego Lake east to a treatment plant on the Willamette River. The buoyant pipe will replace an undersized pipe that now stands on pilings in the lake. The pipe is seismically unsound and prolonged rains have caused it to back up, prompting the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to mandate its... [read full story]