Water Environment Services

Water Environment Services

Stop Service

Complete this form to stop your sewer or surface water service. When we receive the form, we'll mail you a final bill. Please note that you cannot stop service temporarily. Stop service is for home ownership changes only.

Start Service

Complete this form to start sewer or surface water service. Services depend on your location. When we receive the form, we'll contact you about your services and responsibilities.

We do not set up tenant/renter accounts.

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Help us protect the sanitary sewer system

Wipes, paper towels and other "unflushables" can create a sewer backup in your home. Flush only toilet paper and protect your home, the sewer system, and the environment.

When it comes to deciding what to flush down the toilet, Stick to the three P’s: pee, poo and toilet paper.

Fats, oils and grease (FOG) are found in common foods and food ingredients such as meat, fish, butter, cooking oil, mayonnaise, milk, gravies, sauces and food scraps.

Cleaning out your medicine cabinet? Don’t flush old or unwanted medications down the toilet or drain.

Help us protect the watersheds

Although convenient for cleaning surfaces and equipment, pressure washing can send dirty runoff into the storm drain system. 

Trash on the ground can pollute our waterways. Here's how you can help.

Prevent polluting our streams and underground drinking water supplies.

Learn from KPTV Meteorologist Mark Nelsen in this friendly video reminder from WES, KPTV and our other Clean Water Partners.

Clackamas County has almost 100,000 dogs of all shapes and sizes. The FDA estimates that a dog excretes 0.75 pounds of waste per day. That adds up to nearly 13,000 tons of pet waste in our county per year! 

Keeping your lawn free of weeds involves many choices — some are hazardous to our families, pets and waterways.

Heavy rains and fall leaves can cause high water and increase pollutants reaching our streams and rivers.

The following best management practices are recommended to prevent water pollution at apartment complexes and multi-family housing unit.

Ask your landscape maintenance contractor to use these best management practices to help protect our waters, our environment and those you love.

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BMP Sizing Tool

WES, in cooperation with other local jurisdictions, has developed a BMP Sizing Tool to assist developers in meeting flow duration matching requirements customized to Clackamas County conditions. The Tool sizes facilities so that post-development peak flow durations will match the pre-development peak flow durations ranging from 42% of the 2-year to the 10-year flows, as determined by HSPF continuous rainfall model simulation.

The BMP Sizing Tool automates some of the required calculations to support BMP sizing and design for a specific set of stormwater management facility types (See Section 9.0 of User's Guide).

Responses to frequent BMP Sizing Tool questions can be found in Appendix A of the User's Guide, including:

  • Rain gardens, stormwater planters, vegetated swales, and infiltrators are referred to as LID facilities. The BMP Sizing Tool uses different methods for sizing LID facilities (Section 9.2) and detention ponds (Section 9.3).
  • If there are multiple types of post-development surface covers on the site, each of the areas should be delineated separately and entered separately in the BMP Sizing Tool under the Discharge Management Areas tab. 
  • Predevelopment surface conditions should reflect historical conditions (i.e., grass or forest). Even when the pre-development condition is impervious surface, it should be included in the BMP Sizing Tool as grass or forest.
  • The BMP Sizing Tool sizes facilities to manage the 10-year peak flow (based on continuous simulation.) However, WES design standards require conveyance systems to be sized for the peak flow from a 25-year, 24-hour design storm.
  • The BMP Sizing Tool is based on LID principles, including the concept of prioritizing small, distributed surface vegetated facilities. As a guideline, it is recommended that the area draining into a single BMP facility should not exceed approximately 10 acres.

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Watershed Health Education Program

The Watershed Health Education Program educates youth about the importance of protecting our watersheds. The program makes it possible for local teachers and their students to get out of the classroom and into the field, where they gain hands-on experience making assessments, restoring streamside habitats, and studying the factors that determine healthy rivers and streams. These students then share their knowledge with friends, family and the broader community through presentations and activities, making an even bigger impact on protecting public health and the environment. WES works with partners to educate K-12 students in our community, and some projects span multiple years. To learn more about this program and projects, please contact Gail Shaloum at gshaloum@clackamas.us.

Educational Opportunities

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Report a Spill, Leak or Sewer Odor

Report problems such as a sewer spill, illegal dumping into a storm drain or sewer odor from our facilities.

Spill or Leak
Monday to Thursday
7:30 a.m.-12 p.m. & 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Call 503-742-4567 or email wescustomerservice@clackamas.us
Emergency situation? Please use our phone numbers.
Weekends and after hours503-655-8211
Please include the following information:
  • Address or nearest cross street
  • Description of problem
  • Your name
  • Your contact information, including phone number and email address
Sewer Odor
Monday to Thursday
7:30 a.m.-12 p.m. & 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Call 503-742-4567 or email wescustomerservice@clackamas.us
Emergency situation? Please use our phone numbers.
Weekends and after hours
  • Tri-City Water Resource Recovery Facility
    503-557-2899
    (Oregon City and Gladstone)
  • Kellogg Creek Water Resource Recovery Facility
    503-557-6367
    (Milwaukie)
  • Hoodland Water Resource Recovery Facility
    503-742-4547
    (Welches)
Please include the following information:
  • Date and time the odor was present
  • Description of the odor condition
  • Location relative to the plant site

Your name and contact information will be considered to be submitted in confidence, and the county will not disclose your name or contact information except as required by law.

Thank you for helping us to protect public health and the environment!

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