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Albany (/ ˈ æ l b ə n i / AL-bə-nee) is the county seat of Linn County, [11] Oregon, and is the 11th most populous city in the state. [12] Albany is located in the Willamette Valley at the confluence of the Calapooia River and the Willamette River in both Linn and Benton counties, just east of Corvallis and south of Salem.
[5] [33] These cities include Springfield, Eugene, Corvallis, Albany, Salem, Keizer, Newberg, Oregon City, West Linn, Milwaukie, Lake Oswego, and Portland. [5] [33] The largest is Portland, with more than 500,000 residents. [33] Not all of these cities draw water in part or exclusively from the Willamette for their municipal water supply.
The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the US EPA to set standards for drinking water quality in public water systems (entities that provide water for human consumption to at least 25 people for at least 60 days a year). [3] Enforcement of the standards is mostly carried out by state health agencies. [4]
The DEQ has collected water-quality data in the Rogue basin since the mid-1980s and has used it to generate scores on the Oregon Water Quality Index (OWQI). The index is meant to provide an assessment of water quality for general recreational uses; OWQI scores can vary from 10 (worst) to 100 (ideal).
A map of superfund sites in Oregon. This is a list of federal Superfund sites on the National Priorities List (NPL) in Oregon designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. There are other federal Superfund sites in Oregon not on the NPL, which are shorter-term, cleanup sites.
The oldest of these, at Albany, has collected discharge data since the 1880s. [23] A gauge at RM 161 (RK 259) in Harrisburg recorded an average flow of 11,630 cubic feet per second (329 m 3 /s) over the 65 years between 1945 and 2009. Flow is regulated by eight dams on upstream tributaries, and withdrawals for irrigation also affect water levels.
The following year, the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board replaced GWEB, [7] and expanded the five member board with six public members. [9] Passage of Measure 76 in Oregon's 2010 General Election continued lottery funding for parks, beaches, wildlife habitat, watershed protection beyond 2014 and modified the funding process. [10]
The Willamette valley is home to 70% of Oregon's population, with the aquifer supplying water for agricultural, domestic, and industrial purposes. Reported in 2005, the total water use from the aquifer was 1.6 hm 3 (420 million gallons) per day, with 58% going to irrigation, 24% to public supply, and 18% to industrial use. [3]