6/29/2021 The RV Dump Station at the Treatment Plant has been repaired and is open for immediate use!
Increasing concentrations of Sars-CoV-2 virus DETECTED in the sewage tested from the Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
06/04/2021 The results are in from the June 2, 2021 testing. The samples were taken at the treatment plant and reflect the combined communities of our service area (Nehalem, Wheeler, Manzanita, and Neahkahnie). Please continue to practice all safety measures, wear your mask, stay physically distanced, and get vaccinated!
View the full report here: Biobot Report 06/04/2021
5/26/2021 RV Dump Station Closure UPDATE: The replacement pump that we ordered for express shipment has been delayed and is now expected to be delivered in mid-June. We will post progress updates as we have them.
Sars-CoV-2 virus DETECTED in the sewage tested from the Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
05/26/2021 The results are in from the May 19 testing. The samples were taken at the treatment plant and reflect the combined communities of our service area (Nehalem, Wheeler, Manzanita, and Neahkahnie). Please continue to practice all safety measures, wear your mask, stay physically distanced, and get vaccinated!
View the full report here: Biobot Report 05/19/2021
Learn more about Biobot and see nationwide wastewater testing data here: BioBot
Sars-CoV-2 virus DETECTED in the sewage tested from the Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 05/05/2021
Sars-CoV-2 virus NOT DETECTED in the sewage tested from the City of Wheeler community.
View the full report here: BioBot Report 04/14/2021
Sars-CoV-2 virus NOT DETECTED in the sewage tested from the Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
View the full report here: BioBot Report 02/24/2021
Sars-CoV-2 virus DETECTED in the sewage tested from the Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
View the full report here: BioBot Report 02/01/2021
Sars-CoV-2 virus DETECTED in the sewage tested from the Manzanita community.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 12/7/2020
The Sars-CoV-2 virus continues to be DETECTED in the sewage at Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 11/30/2020
Increased Sars-CoV-2 virus DETECTED in the sewage at Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 11/23/2020
Sars-CoV-2 virus DETECTED in the sewage at Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 11/16/2020
Sars-CoV-2 virus NOT detected in the sewage tested from the City of Wheeler community.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 10/12/2020
Sars-CoV-2 virus NOT detected in the sewage tested from the City of Nehalem community.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 10/5/2020
Sars-CoV-2 virus NOT detected in the sewage tested from the Bayside Gardens community.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 9/28/2020
Find the latest study on wastewater surveillance from Stop The Spread (STS) here.
Sars-CoV-2 virus NOT detected in the sewage tested from the Manzanita community.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 9/21/2020
9/14/2020 We are anticipating the arrival of the next group of test kits from Bio-bot within the next week. We would like to share more information about the process of mining wastewater data to create a Covid-19 case estimation:
biobotanalytics/mining-wastewater-data-to-refine-covid-19-case-estimation
Sars-CoV-2 virus DETECTED in the sewage at Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
View the full report here: Biobot Report 8/26/2020
Sars-CoV-2 virus DETECTED in the sewage at Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
View the full reports here: Biobot Report 08/11/2020 Biobot Report 08/19/2020
No detected SARS-CoV-2 virus in the sewage at Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
View the full report from Biobot here: Biobot Report 08/04/2020
No detected SARS-CoV-2 virus in the sewage at Nehalem Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Biobot Report 05/19/2020 Biobot Report 05/26/2020
What You Flush is Helping Track Coronavirus
06/01/2020 We have teamed up with BioBot, a company out of Massachusetts that has been testing influent(raw) wastewater nationwide for Covid-19. We signed up in early April to get on the limited list and we were accepted at the end of April for testing. We have results back from two of the four weeks tested, the first two weeks in May, with no SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in the sewage at Nehalem Bay Wastewater Agency. Our service area includes the communities of Nehalem, Manzanita, Wheeler, and Neah-Kah-Nie.
View the full reports from Biobot here:
Would you like to learn more about Biobot? Check out this story from NPR at https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/852155076/how-what-you-flush-is-helping-track-coronavirus.
We will update with new test results when the reports come back from the Biobot lab.
Established in 1970, the Nehalem Bay Wastewater Agency serves the Oregon coastal cities of Nehalem, Manzanita and Wheeler and the surrounding area.
Our main office is in Nehalem, but you might not know that those little buildings in the area are our major pump stations, nineteen and twelve building lift stations.
Of course, there are also 1145 manholes/clean-outs and 396,000 feet of gravity pipeline that varies in size from 6 inch to 21 inch that connects everything.