City of Salem asks Army Corps to consider delaying Detroit Lake drawdown

The city of Salem is asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to consider delaying the deep drawdown of Detroit Lake to ensure citizens have safe drinking water this winter. 

That recommendation was one of six the city laid out in a Monday letter addressedto the Corps. Among them were requests for the Corps to acknowledge that the drawdown will “increase” sediment levels downstream in the North Santiam River, where the city draws its drinking…