Articles from the December 23, 2014 edition

Dec 23, 2014

Engineers investigate Leaburg Dam gate problem Eugene Water & Electric Board engineers and operations personnel are looking into why one of three roll gates at Leaburg Dam stopped working on Tuesday, Dec. 23. The unexpected shutdown of the gate is the second to fail in the past three years. The middle roll gate experienced a failure in January 2012 and is currently being repaired at the 73-year-old hydroelectric facility on the McKenzie River. The three 16-feet-tall by 100-feet-wide gates regulate the volume of water spilled from the dam on the...