Maybe this can be the first step towards closing the wells and getting ALL of our water from Bull Run.

Two ways:
1. People over fish. (No, not Nick)
2. Build another dam for people to save the fish. (Its for our children.) (If we can build light rail for 2040, we can build a dam for 2040.)

Dams water people, plants and provide habitat for fish (which appear to be more important than people in the mind of some local progressives)

Why can we find billions for toy trains and nothing for our water? (Light rail: Costs too much, does too little.)

Just think of how much money building a dam can feed to politically connected construction companies!

Thanks
JK

The international illegal scrap metal racket is being driven primarily by China and India's massive construction boom. We're lucky if the theives are just random meth heads. England, for example, is dealing with organized gangs that last year stripped portions of the metal roofs off of 2,300 churches.
You follow the drugs you get junkies; you follow the money and there's no telling where you'll end up.

A friend went and sold a bucket of steel bolts that needed recycling, just to see how the trade works. He got something like $75 -- plenty for a meth binge -- was asked for no ID, and offered cash. No wonder people are getting robbed for it. Friend also said he knows people who've had their copper gutters stolen right off their houses.

Hello, Salem! Make'm take ID and photo with the object, just like pawn shops have to. Earth to Salem!

Don't waste your breath. Ginny Burdick will get put in charge of it, and next thing you know the new rule will apply only to meth heads under 18.

Maybe Sam or The Fireman can start a meth-head Metal Recycling Program. Then at least they could recover some of the stolen metal back.

/sarc

You follow the drugs you get junkies; you follow the money and there's no telling where you'll end up.

Bullseye.

As long as there is an insatiable market for scrap metal, dealers will buy it, never mind about any laws. Same with meth--round and round.

Dealers buying scrap metal is one thing - they probably don't have the time or patience to sit there and, you know, log scrap sales like Leonard has merchants log spray paint sales.

But historical plaques ? Surely whoever bought those knew that the seller wasn't on the up-and-up.

But hey, it's a thought, we could get serious about scrap metal theft in a similar manner to the way that Joe Arpaio got serious about the hordes of illegal aliens inundating the county I was born in...go straight to the source, follow the money. But the scrap metal merchants sure would holler and fuss.

It was reported to me this week that several bronze plaques, located at the Water Bureau's Columbia South Shore Well Field >are being stolen.

sounds to me like they've already been stolen.

I just wish the bureau chiefs had to write a memo every time a property crime went unpunished in Portland: at least we'd know they're doing something productive.

And asking the tweakers to PLEASE stop is not going to have much impact. Maybe Little Big Pipe could open Wapato and fill it with metal thieves.

Just another shining example of how worthless our local political leaders are in dealing with a state wide problem. Of course, we have to be "sensitive" to the rights of thieves don't we?

Our society has reached a point where we can't install anything made of metal outside. Really think about that for a moment.... Sad.