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From YouTube: Surface Water Project - CC
Description
The City's surface water project is the largest Public Works project in the history of Bend. Learn here what options are available for piping water down from Bridge Creek. The City Council must decide how to accomplish this in the coming months.
A
B
C
The
city
of
bend
intake
facility,
which
is
on
bridge
creek
and
behind
me,
is
a
90
year
old
building
that
was
built
in
the
1920's
for
the
original
surface
water
project..
There's
a
small
dam
that
captures
water
off
of
bridge
creek
and
takes
the
water
in
here
thru.
This
building
that
houses
some
screens.
C
B
We
have
a
century
old
water
rights
that
prevents
us
from
taking
any
more
water
than
we
need
and
it
keeps
and
restores
the
flow
of
tumalow
creek.
So
bend
is
fortunate
enough
to
have
two
supply
sources
of
water..
We
have
the
surface
water
coming
from
bridge
creek
and
then
our
ground
water,
about
50%
on
each
source.,
and
it's.
B
C
B
C
B
C
D
C
We
have
about
1,000
'
of
energy
head
that
we
could
capture
if
we
decide
to
go
forward
with
a
hydro
facility,
some
of
the
initial
incentives
that
were
on
the
table
last
year
to
encourage
us
to
go
forward
with
the
hydro
part
of
the
project.
Even
though
some
of
those
have
gone
away,,
there
are
still
other
incentives
that
we're
looking
at
no
matter
what
a
hydro
facility
will
always
be
a
revenue
generator.,
an
advantage
that
we
have.
B
With
this
project
is
the
timing
opportunity
with
re-construction
of
the
skyliner
road.,
the
county
would
like
to
reconstruct
that
road.
That's
on
the
forest
service
capital
improvement
program
and
we
would
like
to
put
the
new
pipe
in
the
road.
So
we
want
to
make
sure
that
this
is
all
coordinated
and
we're
looking
to
have
that
occur
sometime
in
2013..
The
water
system.