What is Oak Lodge Sanitary District?
Oak Lodge Sanitary District (OLSD) is a Special District organized under the laws of the State of Oregon and is a municipal corporation. It was formed in 1956 to provide wastewater collection and treatment services to the area from Vineyard Road north to the City of Milwaukie and from the Willamette River east to the top of Oatfield Ridge; an area encompassing some 2000 acres. Because the local soils were unsuitable for subsurface wastewater disposal (septic tanks), pollution and health problems were stemming from those conditions. During the design of a sanitary sewer system and wastewater treatment facility for Oak Lodge Sanitary District, the adjoining communities to the south of the newly formed district also recognized subsurface pollution and followed the lead of Oak Lodge Sanitary District by creating Oak Lodge Sanitary District No. 2. District No. 2 encompassed some 1600 acres in the area south of Vineyard Avenue to the City of Gladstone; an area known as Jennings Lodge. The tw
