Sponsored by APWA’s Water Resources Management Committee Based on a true story! More than 10-years later the City of Bend, Oregon continues to deal with the ramifications of the prolonged engineering, legal, and political effects of the failure of a private water and sewer utility. Examine the lessons learned. 

Learning Objectives:

1.     Benefit from the lessons learned for better coordination with legal experts, state regulatory agencies, and community members when dealing with neighboring private utilities.

2.     Think ahead about how your agency would handle the consequences of a private utility failure.

3.     Prepare for the potential cost impacts a private utility failure might have on your agency.

SPEAKERS:

Thomas R. Hickmann, PE
ENGR & INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN DEPT, DIRECTOR,  City of Bend,  Bend,  OR

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Thomas R. Hickmann, PE

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