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The Eugene City Council approved the purchase of EWEB's former riverfront headquarters property at a meeting on Jan. 30. The terms of the deal state that the City of Eugene will purchase the 4.4-acre property, which includes two buildings and parking lots, for $12 million.
Find Out MoreAn EWEB-supported program provides firewood for people affected by the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire. The McKenzie Firewood program was developed by Pure Water Partners (PWP) in 2021.
Find Out MoreAt EWEB, we do what we can to help others in need. That’s been the reality for several of our electric and water crews over the past few weeks as we’ve responded to mutual aid requests for storm response and drinking water restoration, locally, and out of state.
Find Out MoreAfter evaluating several proposals and opportunities, EWEB is focusing its negotiations to sell the former riverfront headquarters property to the City of Eugene. The exact terms and details of the deal will be negotiated during the next few weeks.
Find Out MoreDespite an ice storm and a few windstorms in Eugene and the McKenzie Valley in the past few weeks, EWEB has so far fended off widespread weather-caused power outages – largely because of investments in year-round system maintenance and infrastructure improvements.
Find Out MoreEWEB makes electric mobility available to anyhone though e-bike rebates, car sharing and grants for local organizations with electric mobility projects.
Find Out MoreThe EWEB Board of Commissioners started off their first meeting of 2023 by choosing a new board president and vice president.
Find Out MoreCommissioners unanimously voted to approve a Record of Decision endorsing the General Manager's Recommendation to decommission the Leaburg Hydroelectric Project and approved Resolution 2302 directing the GM to develop a Leaburg Hydroelectric Project Decommissioning Action Plan
Find Out MoreIn response to a call for aid this week, EWEB’s water division jumped into action to assist the town of Mapleton after a leak in their water system left about 260 homes without running water.
Find Out MoreEWEB is developing a plan to ensure that Eugene has a sufficient supply of reliable, affordable and clean electricity in the decades ahead, and is inviting the community to participate in the process.
Find Out MoreEWEB has joined 10 other Western utilities are to help ensure clean energy resources will be adequate to serve the growing demand in the region, while also managing costs and maintaining reliability for customers.
Find Out MoreFor their final meeting of 2022, on Dec. 6, the EWEB Board of Commissioners grappled with some major decisions and looked ahead to a new year.
Find Out MoreCommissioners supportive of General Manager's recommendation to remove Leaburg Dam
Find Out MoreIn the years ahead, EWEB will have to make a lot of decisions about where to get the electricity that we deliver to customers.
Find Out MoreOn a chilly November day, third graders from Adams Elementary School in Eugene learned about the lifecycle of native salmon on a field trip to Lake Creek near Triangle Lake. The field trips take place all month as part of a program funded by EWEB grants. EWEB dedicates a portion of customer rates to inspiring kids to explore the wonders of science and learn about watershed health, water quality, and emergency preparedness.
Find Out MoreOctober 20, 2022
Today EWEB joined over 44 million organizations across the nation in the Great ShakeOut – the world’s largest earthquake drill.
The event is an important reminder of what to do during an earthquake: Drop, Cover, and Hold On. But getting through an actual earthquake is only one step of many to be prepared for one.
EWEB is preparing for earthquakes by upgrading our facilities to modern seismic standards, building emergency water stations in case an earthquake disrupts our ability to supply water for the people of Eugene, and partnering with the ShakeAlert program to monitor our hydropower facilities at Leaburg and Carmen-Smith.
Working with the Oregon Hazards Lab, EWEB installed seismometers at the Leaburg Canal and on Smith Ridge above the Smith Reservoir. These sensors measure acceleration from seismic events, allowing EWEB to contribute information to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN), the foundation of the ShakeAlert early warning system. EWEB also benefits from sensors installed throughout the region, receiving advance ShakeAlert warnings of seismic events that could impact our facilities.
At the Leaburg Canal, the seismic sensor incorporates an accelerometer which sends local ground motion data to PNSN’s analytic servers. These servers use the data to instantly determine the epicenter location and magnitude of the seismic event. Potentially damaging events then trigger the release of ShakeAlert warnings. EWEB is developing control systems capable of using these ShakeAlert warnings to take automatic protective action, such as opening or closing gates to reduce water levels in our water retaining canal facilities. ShakeAlert also sends alerts based on ground motion data from the broader regional network at large in a predictive manner to help EWEB operators understand the implications of a far-away earthquake on EWEB facilities.
This month’s 4.4 earthquake near the Green Peter Reservoir north of Sweet Home is a good example of how ShakeAlert helps EWEB’s generation facilities. Within seconds (8.8 seconds, to be exact), the ShakeAlert system sent our operators messages estimating how that earthquake’s shaking would propagate across the Calapooia watershed on to the McKenzie Valley to affect our facilities.
According to the ShakeAlert report, Eugene and our upriver facilities would have felt shaking ten seconds after the earthquake began and at only a two on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale (MMI) – a descriptive indicator of earthquake intensity based on peoples’ felt experiences of shaking during the event. An MMI of two is “Weak,” and “Felt only by a few persons at rest, especially on upper floors of buildings.”
“Our local emergency managers called EWEB to check in on the status of our facilities,” said EWEB Generation Engineering Supervisor Mark Zinniker. “The ShakeAlert contour map was really helpful to show them that the amount of shaking was not significant to our facilities.”
Members of the public can sign up for ShakeAlert notifications, too, for events above a 4.5 magnitude on the Richtor scale. ShakeAlert notifications are also built into the Android OS.
“We monitored the situation and ShakeAlert did exactly what we wanted it to do, but this event did not meet the threshold for public communication, which is 4.5 magnitude and above,” said Robert de Groot, ShakeAlert Coordinator for Communication, Education, Outreach and Technical Management.
With today’s Great ShakeOut drill as an inspiration, it’s a great opportunity to talk about earthquake preparedness with your family. Do you know the Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety? Take a moment to secure your space, plan to be safe, organize supplies, and minimize financial hardships before the next big one shakes things up for real. EWEB’s Pledge to Prepare program is a good starting place for all kinds of emergencies.
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