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The Board of Directors for Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (TVF&R) has awarded a contract for construction of a new fire station to First Cascade Corporation of Lake Oswego. The winning bid was $2,744,535 for the station to be built at 12585 SW Walnut Street. The architects of Peck Smiley Ettlin of Portland designed the 11,700-square-foot facility.
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The Patton Valley Plant is located on Scoggins Creek and provides water for the Patton Valley area and upper Tualatin River. The Springhill Pump Plant has four 350 HP pumps and five 1500 HP pumps which withdraw water from the Tualatin River for distribution through the North, East and West pipelines. Water is delivered via the Tualatin River for irrigators who pump directly from the river. TVID personnel routinely inspect and maintain miles of pipeline checking for damage or leaks. Field technicians ... routinely inspect flow meters to assure accurate measurement of water use is recorded.
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Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue is proud to announce that Fire Chief Jeff Johnson has been appointed to the position of 2nd Vice-President of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). The appointment was expected to take place in August, but occurred early due to a vacancy on the Board. Johnson was running uncontested for IAFC 2nd Vice President in the 2008 election.
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"Depending on where they reside, the new Volunteers will be assigned to either Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue or Clackamas County Fire District No. 1. They may staff fire stations during peak activity periods, provide rehab and fire-watch services at an incident scene, assist in salvage and overhaul tasks, and respond to emergency incidents if needed," Eubanks added.
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This 1967 photo shows a 33-inch pipeline being installed on the Tualatin Project in Oregon's Willamette Valley. This project, authorized by Congress in 1966, was the last Bureau of Reclamation project authorized in the Pacific Northwest. (Note: There have been later re-authorizations for Projects in the region.) It is the only Reclamation Project in the Willamette Valley.
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At 3:42 pm Tuesday, Beaverton Police and Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue were dispatched to a motor vehicle crash on westbound Highway 26 just west of the Bethany on-ramp. When TVF&R firefighters arrived they found a two-car head-on accident.
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