Laura Farthing

The 1940’s era water tank on College Hill was removed last year. Now, crews are starting to assemble two new, seismically safe 7.5 million gallon tanks.

Demolition is well underway at the College Hill Reservoir in South Eugene.

A couple hundred community members gathered Thursday to say goodbye to the College Hill Reservoir in Eugene. It’ll soon be demolished to make way for state-of-the-art water storage tanks.

The Eugene Water and Electric Board is in the middle of some major changes to its water storage and distribution plan. They’re meant to make the system earthquake-ready.

A plan to build new water storage in south Eugene has some residents upset. They object to tree removal and construction at a site that has been an urban…