E. Oregon trailer park residents without water for 5 months

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — Residents of a trailer park in eastern Oregon have been without clean drinking water for five months.

Nancy Shaw, owner of Locust Mobile Village near Milton-Freewater, tells The East Oregonian (http://bit.ly/2dN0fvC ) that E. coli has been a problem in the park’s well for years and she is doing all she can to combat it.

Shaw says she has been treating the water with lots of chlorine, but the chemical is beginning to erode the water storage tanks.

In the meantime, the park’s 40 residents must buy drinking water by the gallon. They say the chlorine-treated water is harsh on their skin.

Shaw says she is accumulating state fines but that testing and monitoring the water is expensive. She says raising rent to pay for it would drive out the tenants.

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Information from: East Oregonian, http://www.eastoregonian.com