The Odell Sanitary District, in Hood River County, received a Special Public Works Fund award to bring its wastewater facility into compliance with Oregon Department of Environmental Quality regulations. The project was designed to mitigate two main issues related to temperature and residual Chlorine impacts to Odell Creek. The district chose an advanced, state-of-the-art, Membrane Bio-Reactor process. Now, this process enables the district to reduce contaminants enough to provide a "water quality" effluent into Odell Creek.
This new treatment facility enabled Cardinal Glass to retain 75 jobs and create an additional 50-plus jobs. The project was completed in October 2008 and received funds—loans, grants and a federal EPA match—totaling $5.59 million.
Business Oregon provided Union County construction funding of $2,184,388 that was used to construct a new building and a communications tower at the Union County Airport to support the U.S. Forest Service's national and regional fire and other air operations.
A 2008 report by Ernst and Young on state business taxes pronounced Oregon's position as one of the lowest business tax rate structures in the United States.
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