Carollo deal: the official version
Following our stories about the City of Portland's quiet deal to lease its drinking water wells to a private company to test water treatment systems for corporate manufacturers, the city's water bureau has published its own version of the deal. It's been up for a few weeks now, here, but today's the first we noticed it.
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There is part of a paragraph omitted about halfway down the lengthy September Water Bureau posting that you linked. Here's how it now appears:
Carollo Involvement in Bull Run Supply Treatment Design
hydraulics and have been involved with the UV equipment selection and design of the UV building. They are teamed with Black and Veatch on the treatment process work. Carollo wrote the UV Disinfection Guidance Manual for the EPA. They were hired for this project because of their expertise in UV disinfection. Wedeco, our selected manufacturer, is currently testing the reactor that will be used in our facility (if we build it) at the Portland Validation facility at the Groundwater Pump Station.
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At least part of a sentence, and perhaps more, is missing at the beginning. It is a significant paragraph.
Thanks for all your research work on these water questions.
Posted by Ted Gleichman | October 17, 2011 1:44 PM
The PWB is trying to paint this whole mess as legitimate because it is legal.
Well legal or not, it is certainly not morally ethical to first let private industry (together with key insiders) write the rules and then force the taxpayers to fork over hundreds of Millions of dollars to implement the rules.
Using so called "science" to make an economic gain (or screw your competition) is the new tool being welded all over our public space. Scientists are becoming the new whores for hire.
Posted by Ralph Woods | October 17, 2011 2:25 PM
...Carollo wrote the UV Disinfection Guidance Manual for the EPA...
Looks like corporations are writing rules for EPA, shouldn't EPA be guided by independent scientists?
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/survey_half_of_epa_scientists.php
The Union of Concerned Scientists said that more than half of the nearly 1,600 EPA staff scientists who responded online to a detailed questionnaire reported they had experienced incidents of political interference in their work....?
Nearly 400 scientists said they had witnessed EPA officials misrepresenting scientific findings, 284 said they had witness the "selective or incomplete use of data to justify a specific regulatory outcome" and 224 scientists said they had been directed to "inappropriately exclude or alter technical information" in an EPA document.
See link for more.
Posted by clinamen | October 17, 2011 3:03 PM
And so Carollo gives the bid to the financier of their facility while their subcontractor, Clancy, acts in their behalf on the Sampling Team to decide *if* we need a UV Plant? That's like asking the foxes (no offense to foxes) if they think being vegetarian is a good idea! The Water Bureau has their private agreement with them, signed Christmas week '02 (nothing to hide there) and how much have we heard about it before this??? They go all around the world announcing their selected manufacturer (while of course, still trying to get a variance). Seems to go just a bit beyond the "parallel path"-design & engineer only if they *have* to build it....
Posted by If It Smells Like..... | October 17, 2011 3:56 PM
I think that Carollo is being mentored by Bechtel.
Posted by sheila | October 18, 2011 11:09 AM