Portland Resident Says This is All Political Theater
I live in Portland and the story is more complicated.
Shaff (head of water bureau) is doing PR to bolster support for covering the in-town reservoirs. This is pure political theater. He is intentionally trying to freak people out because he knows there are people who oppose covering the reservoirs. There is opposition because for over 100 years this system has worked beautifully, and continues to be safe. But monied interests prefer big construction projects.
Read more about it here: http://www.friendsofreservoirs.org/news.html
Biting the hand that feeds IT
