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Earth
Continued from page A-1
on display during the city's earth
day walking tour.
"Other than some of the con-
crete structures, this will be a
brand new plant," city engineer
Mike Michael said.
Among the upgrades are new
headworks/influent structure -
the part of the plant that first
takes in raw sewage and screens
out "grit," a new aeration system,
improved dentrification, which
maintains discharged levels of
nitrogen and a third clarifier,
which will remove more solids
from the wastewater.
The new construction also
added effluent storage containers
for use during slack tide. These
will store treated wastewater un-
til water levels in Hammersley
Inlet will allow proper mixing of
the effluent with the salt water
in the inlet.
An ultraviolet disinfection
system will replace the current
chlorination system, and there
will be a larger laboratory facil-
ity. Also, office space and control/
monitoring equipment will be re-
located to a different part of the
facility.
Also, the city is adding new
facilities, which will allow the
plant to upgrade from creating
Class B biosolids, to Class A bio-
solids. Both forms can be used
for fertilizer, but Class A is more
versatile, and is in a pellet form,
which is easier to handle.
The overall focus of the city's
Earth Day tour was on how the
new plant will protect the envi-
ronment, particularly in Ham-
mersley Inlet. City, USDA and
community representatives were
confidant that the new invest-
ment would provide for a health-
ier Puget Sound in the future.
"This investment is an invest-
ment for the whole community,"
said Steve Bloomfield, represent-
ing local shellfish growers. "We
are logs and clams ... it's part oi
our heritage - it's something that
we must protect into the future."
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Individual classrooms collect as many recyclables as they can at Oakland Bay Junior High, as
part of their participation in the Department of Ecology's Washington Green School program.
Green
Continued from page A-1
From that day on, Wester-
mann and her team began
thinking of ways to reduce
that waste.
"We take and use what
we have, where we are to
take care of our recycling
- we happen to have these
containers and we've turned
them into recycle bins," she
said. "We use what we have
to achieve our goals, which
is to step up our recycling
service."
Since most schools are
running on a shoestring
budget in the current eco-
nomic downturn, Wester-
mann and her fellow green
team members have had to
improvise, and have either
bought plastic garbage cans
to collect recycling in the
cafeteria, or used coffee cans
or old plastic bins to collect
food waste and other recy-
clables.
Westermann said that
even before joining Ecol-
ogy's program, students and
staff at the school were con-
corned about recycling
"When I first came back
to work I discovered that
Ms. (Cherie) Longmire's
class handled all of the re-
cycling, 6f th P01 ean,
the water bottles and recy-
cling that comes out of the
kitchen," she said. "They do
it every week, so I thought,
maybe we could do a better
job recycling the other gar-
bage."
Above all other types of
waste, Westermann said
that schools, and particu-
larly Oakland Bay Junior
High, go through milk ear-
tons and plastic water and
pop bottles like crazy. To
deal with the problem, she
started adding more recy-
cling bins throughout the
school to encourage the sop-
aration of recyclable waste
from other garbage.
In Westermann's pro-
gram, milk cartons have
their own bin. So do plastic
bottles, paper scraps, card-
board, and food waste. Some
food waste even gets reused,
she said.
"We take the salad bar
waste everyday and feed it
to a worm bin, a w0ll a th0
waste from our foods class,"
she said.
• / ]
The worm bin, as well as
another compost bin, are
used as fertilizer for a horti-
culture class.
Westermann said that
while the project sometimes
feels like an uphill battle,
like when she's sifting
through garbage for recycla-
bles, it has had a major posi-
tive impact on the school.
Since the program began,
the school has been able
to eliminate one of its full
sized dumpsters that used
to be filled every day. This
equates to a third of the
school's daily trash output
and about $4,000 a year in
garbage bills.
Volunteers from the staff
take all of the milk cartons,
bottles, and paper to the re-
cycling center themselves to
save money.
"It's not a lot when you're
talking about the big pic-
turo and how much garbage
comes through, but it's a lot
of trash,, Westermann said.
BatteriesPlus. 4"
Cop
Continued from page A-1
at the courtroom and was
directed by Judge George
Steele to take Horn into
custody for contempt of
court. After being placed
in handcuffs, Horn made
several derogatory state-
ments to the judge. Horn
continued to yell profani-
ties and was extremely
agitated while being tak-
en to a squad car.
Once in the car, Horn
asked what his bail
would be and Officer Pat-
ton informed him that
there would be no bail
because of a contempt cf
court hold.
"At that time, Horn
slammed his head
against the plastic pari-
tion in the patrol vehicle
with such force that I
thought he had broke the
plastic and was at risk of
injuring himself," Officer
Patton wrote in a prob-
able cause statement.
"He then slid sideways
in the seat and started to
kick the bars covering the
rear side windows. While
doing this, I told Horn to
stop it or I would have to
stop the vehicle. Horn's
response was, 'I'll (exple-
"As an
officer,
I took
Horn's
threat to
kill me as
a valid
threat."
tive removed) kill you.'"
Officer Patton imme-
diately advised dispatch
that Horn was hitting his
head and threatening to
kill police officers. Officer
Patton also requested as-
sistance from other units.
"Horn immediately
stated in an apologetic
tone, 'I didn't say that,'"
Patton wrote in his prob-
able cause statemtent.
"As an officer, I took
Horn's threat to kill me
as a valid threat. Horn
has an extensive criminal
history including six felo-
nies and several fourth-
degree assault convic-
tions."
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