PORTLAND — Four people have been arrested after 75 to 100 gathered at Portland’s Mount Tabor Park to protest the city’s decision to follow a federal mandate to cover open reservoirs.
KATU-TV reports the four were arrested early Tuesday after protesters violated a midnight curfew.
The group gathered at the park Monday night, and most had left by about 1 a.m. Some announced on a bullhorn that they plan to bang pots and pans at a City Council meeting Wednesday.
The names of those arrested weren’t immediately known.
The roots of the dispute date to the Bush administration, when the Environmental Protection Agency issued a rule to prevent contamination by cryptosporidium, a parasite that killed more than 100 people in Milwaukee in 1993 and sickened thousands more.
Demonstrators want city leaders to ask Oregon’s congressional delegation for help pursuing a waiver or extension.
