City to seek grant for Interceptor

The Lebanon City Council approved a request by city staff to apply to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for up to a $14 million loan to pay for an extension to the Westside Interceptor, a sewer main, which would allow the city to lift a partial moratorium on new development.

The city has received a draft of a report from David Evan and Associates outlining the existing Westside Interceptor’s lack of capacity, said Engineering…