In This Issue
• Tour our award-winning treatment facilities

• Controlled burns return native species

• Free hazardous waste collection events

Did you know?
We clean an average of 58 million gallons of wastewater every day.

Who we are
Clean Water Services is a wastewater and stormwater utility committed to protecting water resources in the Tualatin River Watershed.

Tour our award-winning treatment facilities

Get a close-up look at Clean Water Services’ advanced wastewater
treatment facilities by registering for a free tour. It's a rare opportunity to visit the inner workings of these state-of-the-art, award-winning facilities. The one-hour tours will include a showing of Clean Water Services' video, Oregon's Tualatin River: A Watershed Restored, and light refreshments. Children over the age of 8 years old are welcome if accompanied by an adult.

Space is limited at both facilities, so reservations should be made in advance by calling (503) 547-8000. Tours leave on the hour at 10 a.m., 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Durham Wastewater Treatment Facility Tour
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Administration Building
16580 SW 85th Avenue
Tigard, Oregon

Rock Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility Tour
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Administration Building
3235 SW River Road (near Witch Hazel Rd.)
Hillsboro, Oregon

Controlled burns return native species

Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue and Clean Water Services will conduct a
joint project on a parcel of land at the end of SW 85th Avenue in Tigard on Sunday, August 20 through Saturday, August 26. The project is a series of controlled burns with two purposes. The burns will provide TVF&R firefighters with valuable brush fire training opportunities while helping to eradicate non-native plant and
grass species.

Clean Water Services owns the land and wishes to return the field to an oak savannah. Burning is an efficient method to rid areas of non-native plants and grasses while neutralizing the soil, which will facilitate the return of the oak savannah plant community. TVF&R has conducted similar burns at Browns Ferry Park in Tualatin, on Cooper Mountain west of Beaverton and along the Tualatin River near West Linn.

Free hazardous waste collection events

Many household products you use in your yard and home can hurt people, fish and wildlife if used or disposed of incorrectly. You should never dispose of your household toxic trash down the sink, on the ground, down a storm drain or in your garbage can.

Free household hazardous waste collection events take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every week (except Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day weekends) between early March and mid-November.

For more information, call Metro Recycling Information at (503) 234-3000 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

• Aug. 18 and 19, Tigard High School, 9000 SW Durham Rd.
• Aug. 25 and 26, Portland, Alice Ott Middle School, 12500 SE Ramona St.
• Sept. 8 and 9, Portland, PCC Sylvania, 12000 SW 49th Ave. (Enter off 49th Avenue, turn right on G Street to lot P-10)
• Sept. 15 and 16, Beaverton, West Side Church of Christ: 17415 NW Walker Rd.
• Sept.22 and 23, Milwaukie, Church of Christ, 10110 SE Linwood Ave.
• Sept. 29 and 30, Tualatin, Rolling Hills Church, 3550 SW Borland Rd.
• Oct. 6 and 7, Parkrose, K-Mart, 12350 NE Sandy Blvd.
• Oct. 13 and 14, Hillsboro, Century High School, 2000 SW 234th Ave.
• Oct. 20 and 21, Beaverton, Southwest Bible Church, 14605 SW Weir Road
• Oct. 27 and 28, Portland, Rockwood United Methodist Church, 17805 SE Stark St.
• Nov. 4, Forest Grove, Forest Grove Transfer Station, 1525 B St.
• Nov. 11, Troutdale, Troutdale Transfer Station, 869 NW Eastwind Drive