EWEB

Eugene-area residents apparently heeded a request to reduce their electricity consumption during this month’s triple-digit heat wave.

The Eugene Water and Electric Board is asking customers to conserve energy.

Temperatures are forecast to reach into the triple-digits from Sunday into next week, bringing higher risk of fires and heat-related illness.

The Eugene Water and Electric Board has been looking for a source of water to augment its intake on the McKenzie River for decades.

McKenzie Valley residents who lost their septic systems to the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire can now get money to replace them.

Eugene Water and Electric Board's Frank Lawson shares EWEB's plans for the future.

EWEB is moving closer to removing the Leaburg Dam.

People in the unincorporated Lane County community of Mapleton are once again without running water.

For two months, students in Eugene have been raising salmon. Last week, they released them into the wild.

As EWEB’s board of commissioners ponder the possible deactivation of the Leaburg Hydroelectricity Project, it’s expected that rates will increase for the utility’s customers in any case.

This post includes information about power shutoffs and evacuations during the Sept. 2022 wind storm. This post will be updated.

Emergency responders and members of the public will be able to keep better tabs on potential wildfires in the McKenzie River Valley thanks to a new wildfire detection camera that will go online in July.