The rising cost of materials and an underlying soil issue are the reasons the Rogue River City Council consented to a 750,000-gallon water reservoir.
The biggest piece of the city’s ongoing project through the Oregon Safe Water Revolving Loan Fund, the enclosed water reservoir, located at ground level, to provide maximum storage and fire protection availability, had been planned from the beginning to be one million gallons and then 1.2 million.
But with the shock…