City Of Medford Facing Lawsuit Over Claims Of Rogue River Pollution

City Of Medford Facing Lawsuit Over Claims Of Rogue River Pollution Medford, ore. — the city of medford is facing a lawsuit over claims that its wastewater treatment facility is contaminating the rogue river. the plaintiff, northwest environmental advocates is based up in portland. they say they don’t typically get involved in cases like this, but said the data is too overwhelming to not take action. […]. The lawsuit claimed that medford routinely discharges nutrient pollution (nitrogen and phosphorus) at excessively high concentrations, causing negative effects to the downstream aquatic ecosystem such as the growth of nuisance algae and aquatic weeds and a decline in the macroinvertebrate community—the bugs that make up the bottom of the food.

Environmental Group Suing Medford Over Rogue River Pollution Says Issu Medford, ore. (ap) — water quality advocates filed a lawsuit alleging the city of medford has known for years that water discharged from its sewage treatment plant illegally harms the rogue river’s aquatic balance but failed to fix it. the northwest environmental advocates, in a suit filed tuesday, claim studies since 2013 show nutrient. Medford — the city of medford is unlawfully polluting the rogue river, one of the nation’s original eight rivers protected as “wild and scenic,” according to a lawsuit filed today. In august of 2023, the city council for the city of medford voted to approve up to $300 million to upgrade the city’s regional water reclamation facility, a municipal wastewater treatment plant that today serves a population of 160,000 and discharges 18 million gallons of effluent per day into the rogue river near central point, oregon. Medford, ore. the northwest environmental advocates says medford’s wastewater water treatment plant is polluting the rouge river. but the group says this issue goes beyond just medford. in 2013, rogue fly fishers commissioned a study on medford’s impacts on the rogue river. the findings in that study lead to a 2018 lawsuit filed against the […].