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The city of Portland, Oregon, is known for having a large number of man-made reservoirs. Portland's reservoirs provide storage for drinking water from the Bull Run River. Portland is currently in the process of covering some of these reservoirs for continued use due to health concerns, but plans to keep most of them uncovered for their historic ...
The Portland Water Bureau is the municipal water department for the city of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.The bureau manages a water supply that comes mainly from the Bull Run River in the foothills of the Cascade Range east of the city and secondarily from the Columbia South Shore Well Field near the Columbia River.
Water from the reservoir first flowed into the Portland water system on January 2, 1895. President Theodore Roosevelt restricted entry to all but government agents and water company employees and banned stock grazing on April 28, 1904. [2] In 1915 a new timber and rock fill dam raised the lake level about 10 feet (3.0 m). At least two series of ...
In 1929, Portland built Dam 1 (the Ben Morrow Dam), [n 2] which is about 200 feet (61 m) high. [30] To keep pace with population growth and increasing water demands, the city created Reservoir 2 behind Dam 2. [31] The new dam, completed in 1962 at the site of the headworks dam, is a rockfill structure, 110 feet (34 m) high. [32]
Cottage Grove Reservoir: an impoundment of the Coast Fork Willamette River created by Cottage Grove Dam: Cougar Reservoir: an impoundment of the McKenzie River created by Cougar Dam: Crane Prairie Reservoir: a 5.34 sq mi (13.8 km 2) reservoir in Deschutes County and one of the largest rainbow trout fisheries in Oregon Crater Lake
Portland city officials are having to flush millions of gallons of treated reservoir water after a 19-year-old man allegedly relieved himself in a non-traditional location. It happened around 1 o ...
Originally built between 1908 and 1912 near the town of Bull Run, it supplied hydroelectric power for the Portland area for nearly a century, until it was removed in 2007 and 2008. The project used a system of canals, tunnels, wood box flumes and diversion dams to feed a remote storage reservoir and powerhouse. The entire project was removed ...
In the 1860s, the Portland Water Company, which had acquired the existing business, added water from Balch Creek to the system. It was piped to a wooden reservoir at Alder and Pacific streets. [22] Water shortages and pollution led to a shift in the water supply from sources within the city to the Bull Run River in the Cascade Range. It began ...