Bulletin Daily Paper 05-13-15

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bendbulletin.com TODAY'S READERBOARD Reduilding Iraq — The country faces evenmore destruction after its battle with the militant Islamic State.A6

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Hidden history — The discovery of a medieval mass grave under aParis supermarket offers a rare chance to do archaeology in the city.A6

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Several counties east of the Cascades, including Crook, are in states of emergency. Why not

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Deschutes or Jefferson? We've drawn out how river basins play a role.

The Bend City Council and an appointed citizen

Differences in rock below the surface of the Crooked and Deschutes river systems explain

committee beganporing over the city's proposed $630 million 2015-17 budget Tuesdayevening. Riding on the backs of a recovering economy and increasing property tax revenue, the proposedbudget has grown $134 million over the previous biennium. City Manager Eric King charac-

w hy those who count on the Crooked worry about drought more than those who depend on the ysis of many studies indicates it has many health benefits.A3

And a Wed exclusiveLearning about egg freezingat an elegant hotel with wine and hors d'oeuvres. bendbulletin.com/extrns

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Anesthesia devicecould take place of doctors By Todd C. Frankel The Washington Post

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Volcanoes contriduted tothe area's water riches The igneous geology in the Cascades andwest of the Deschutes River has created a porous basin that allows a vast amount of water to flow underground into the Deschutes River Basin. It eventually flows downhill in the general direction of the river. East of the river, the geology is impermeable and any rainfall tends to quickly become runoff.

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was blunt: "That's going to replace me." One day, maybe. For now, the Sedasys anesthesiology machine is just getting started, the leading lip of an automation wave that could

transform hospitals just as technology changed automobile factories. But this m achine doesn't seek to

replace only hospital shift workers. It's targeting one

of the best-paid medical specialties, making it all the more intriguing — or alarming, depending on your point of view.

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have tough choices to make and a tough prioritization

the first in a series of three

scheduled for the week. After the appointed Budget Committee's review finishes

Thursday, the City Council isscheduledtoadoptthe

budget in June. The meeting homed in on the water flowing in and

out of the city, induding the city's engineering and infrastructure planningprogram, which is responsil)le

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cityhad little choice but to cutstaffand services. "Now things are picking backup, and we actually process," King said of the process to develop the proposedbudget. "Before all we had to do was just say no." The night's meeting was

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Meanwhile,undertheCrookedRiver ... Rock under the CrookedRiver subbasin is older andnot as permeable asthe rock under the Deschutes River Basin, said Marshall Gannett, research hydrologist with the U.S.Geological Survey in Portland. So, rock in the CrookedRiver subbasin does not soak uprainfall and snowmelt the way the Deschutes basin does, said Gannett, who hasstudied the basins. "The Crookedwould be like pouring water on aflat table, and the liquid would pour off very quickly, and theDeschutes would be like pouring water onto a sponge," hesaid. Over the past two years, little water has poured onto the table, while the spongehas stayed wet, despite back-to-backyears of low snowpack. Theresult: The governor's office has declared drought emergencies in CrookCounty in 2014 andthis year, while Deschutes and Jefferson counties haveavoided such drastic measures.

Where groundwater is the future To meet the projected growing demand for drinking water as Bendexperiences a growth spurt, city water utility leaders expect to drill more wells to tap the underground aquifer while the amount of surface water used remains flat. — Total water ese — Amount from groundwater — Amount from Temalo Creek 60million gallonsper day —.

• At Wickiup,irrigation demandcomesearly "This year was warm and dry so deThe Bulletin mand increases significantly," said Kyle Natural river flows are down Gorman,region manager forthe but irrigation demand has come OraP"IC Or egon Water Resources Departearly, so releases out of Wickiup Oll A5 men tin Bend. Irrigation demand Reservoir are above average for started in early April, he said, as this time of year upstream of Bend on it does in dryyears in Central Oregon. the Deschutes River. SeeWickiup/A5 By Dylan J. Darling

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POST — A man died

Monday night in Post at the hands of a relative,according to the Crook County Sheriff's Office. At about 10:30 p.m. Mon-

day, Crook County sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a shooting at a home on SE Terrible Trail,

a dirt road off the Paulina Highway about 25 miles southeast of Prineville. William Brown, 51, was found dead there, accord-

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Geology is the reason the city of Bendwill likely never run the risk of completely depleting its groundwater. Water seeps into the permeable rock formations in the UpperDeschutes near Crescent Lakeand gravity pulls it downhill through cracks in the rock. Thegroundwater is eventually discharged again into the Deschutes River around lakes Billy Chinook and Simtustus. That's why the Deschutes rarely has severe floods and drinking water can be found about 500 feet beneath Bend,depending onyour location.

TOLEDO, Ohio — The new machine that could

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ing to Crook County Sheriff's Sgt. Travis Jurgens. Brown was shot during a

domestic dispute, Jurgens wrote in a news release Tuesday evening. The identity of the shooting suspect was not released."The case is still under investigation

and no charges have been filed," Jurgens wrote. See Slain /A4

Banksget uncertainmessageonlegal pot money By Keri Geiger, Jesse Hamilton and Elizabeth Dexheimer

legalized marijuana. The financial-crimes arm

Bloomberg News

of the Treasury Department is

keep it from organized crime. And it figures banks with strong compliance departments can best help it track

could run afoul of federal drug laws if they accept the cash. That's left the banking industry dazed and confused

the money. At the same time, federal

about what to do even as legal marijuana sellers in 23 states

government has opened

making it easier to deposit the fledgling industry's growing

a new line of business for

revenue, at last count nearly

America's biggest banks, and for once they don't want it.

$3 billion annually and almost bank regulators have reall in cash. The government mained silent on the issue, wants to tax the revenue and raising the specter that banks

NEW YORK — The U.S.

Little wonder: It's cash from

and the District of Columbia are faced with mountains of

cash piling up in warehouses

and basement vaults. "More than 200 million

Americans live in states where there is some form of legal marijuana," said Rep. Earl Blumenauer, an Oregon Democrat, who is pushing a bill on marijuana taxation. See Pot /A4


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