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Drain is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,151 at the 2010 census. The population was 1,151 at the 2010 census. Drain is named after town founder and politician Charles J. Drain , who donated 60 acres (24 ha) of nearby land to the Oregon and California Railroad in 1871.
The new panel's first three members, all appointed by Governor Neil Goldschmidt, were Charles Davis, who had already been serving as acting Commissioner since January 1987; [2] State Senator Nancy Ryles and Paul G. Cook. [3] Earlier, Davis had also been Oregon's Public Utility Commissioner under Gov. Robert W. Straub, from 1975–1979. [2]
A public utilities commission is a quasi-governmental body that provides oversight and/or regulation of public utilities in a particular area (locality, municipality, or subnational division), especially in the United States and Canada.
To mitigate central office code exhaustion, the Oregon Public Utility Commission approved an overlay numbering plan with area code 458 for the entire area, [2] resulting in mandatory 10-digit dialing for that area. [3] Oregon's other area code overlay already had this requirement.
Bob Wiley, the county’s incumbent drain commissioner since 2008, is running as a Republican write-in along with Eileen Tesch, a former Algonac council member known more recently for working with ...
Charles Drain Charles and Nancy Drain Mrs. Charles Drain. Charles Drain (December 28, 1816 – June 24, 1894) was a politician in the Oregon Territory and later the U.S. state of Oregon, and the founder of the city of Drain. He was born in 1816 near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The family moved to Shelby County, Indiana, when Charles was five. Both ...
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Oregon electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Oregon, sorted by type and name.In 2022, Oregon had a total summer capacity of 17,243 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 61,317 GWh. [2]