The Dalles Public Works Director Dave Anderson is hoping public comment can help move the City’s application for an Oregon Water Resource Department grant to pay half of the cost of replacement of the Dog River water line.  The City’s request for four million dollars ranked only 23rd out of 34 applications representing 51 million dollars, and the state has only 14 million to distribute.  Anderson is hoping public comments to OWRD can move The Dalles up the rankings for funding to replace the over 100-year-old wooden line.  He adds the pipe currently leaks one million gallons of water a day during peak flow, and replacement would mean more water would stay in the stream rather than being diverted.  Public comment is being taken through Friday, and can be done through the Oregon Water Resources Department website.  Five other projects in the region are up consideration with the Mosier Deep Water Supply Well, Kingsley Reservoir expansion, and Coe Branch Pipeline and Efficiency projects all in the top ten in the department’s rankings.