Camp Yamhill Lessons Learned

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Camp Yamhill Lessons Learned

• YAMHILL COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
• 412 N.E. FORD STREET
• McMINNVILLE, OREGON 97128
• [phone]

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Camp Yamhill Overview

• Statistics
• Geographic size 200 Acres
• Camp Capacity 300
• Campers per year 10,000
• Operates Year Round

• Activities
• Outdoor School
• Challenge Course
• Girl Scout Weekends
• Weddings, Family Reunions, etc
• Various other camp activities such as band
  camp,
• wrestling camp, etc

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Camp Yamhill Services

• Food Services
• Capacity to seat 120 people at on time
• Receive deliveries 2 time per week
• Receive most food fully cooked / prepared
• Sleeping accommodations
• Bunks for 200
• Camping space for ?
• Staff Cabin for 20
• Showers provided for boys and girls
• Staffing
• 4 main caretakers
• 1 is manager / maintains grounds etc
• 1 is maintenance supervisor
• 2 manage the kitchen
• Other employees hired as needed

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Camp Yamhill Watershed
Flying M Ranch
Camp Yamhill
Yamhill River
Haskins Creek
1 inch 1 mile
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Camp Yamhill
Yamhill U.
Girls Cabins
Pond
Intake
Yamhill River
Sewage
Leach Fields
Boys Cabins
Lodge
1 inch 183 Feet
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Camp Yamhill Source Water
North Yamhill River (Main Tributary)
Haskins Creek
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Drinking Water System

• Then
• Pump directly form river in the summer
• Pump through caisson in the winter
• Surface water treatment included
• Fiber filter
• Rapid sand filter
• D.E. Filter
• Chlorination
• System was inadequate for treatment
• Low CT time 30 Minutes calculated, 10 minutes
  actual.
• The system was maintaining a chlorine residual of
  .7 PPM

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Then
Pleated Filter

• Intake

D.E. Filter
Rapid Sand Filter
Chlorinator
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Then

• Investigation
• After eliminating food as a source of the
  outbreak, the water system became the focus
• State and Yamhill County staff worked Memorial
  Day Weekend to investigate

• The drinking water system was found to be
  inadequate to treat the drinking water for the
  camps needs.

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Drinking Water System

• Now
• Pump directly from river in the summer
• Pump through caisson in the winter
• Surface water treatment included
• Slow Sand Filter
• Chlorination
• Diffuser in tank to increase contact time
• CT time Increased to ???
• The system is maintaining a chlorine residual of
  2 PPM

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Now

• Intake

Pressure Tanks and Pumps
Rapid Sand Filter
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Now
Chlorinator
ORP Meter
Clear Well
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What Did We Learn?
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You can't build a reputation on what you're going
to do.
Henry Ford