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The growth of agriculture in the valley was eventually limited in the middle 20th century by the need for irrigation. [3] In 1966, the United States Bureau of Reclamation built the Tualatin Project, bringing additional water to many parts of the valley in the last federal reclamation project in the Pacific Northwest. [3]
Hagg Lake contains 53,640 acre-feet (66,160,000 m 3) of water that can be used. [4] Some water from the lake is used by Clean Water Services to augment the flow of the Tualatin River during the summer months to reduce the temperature and improve water quality. [4] Other users include four cities and the Tualatin Valley Water District. [4]
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (TVF&R) is a special-purpose government fire fighting and emergency services district in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon.Established in 1989 with a merger between Washington County Fire District 1 and the Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District, it primarily provides fire and emergency medical services in eastern Washington County, but also provides ...
Water is drawn from the Willamette River from the Wilsonville Water Treatment Plant built at a cost of $46 million in conjunction with the Tualatin Valley Water District. [85] [86] The city used to use wells to provide drinking water, but those began to run dry in the late 1990s. [87]
Map Baker County: 001: Baker City: 1862: Eastern portion of Wasco County: Named in honor of Edward Dickinson Baker, who died in combat while serving as Oregon senator. 16,912: 3,068 sq mi (7,946 km 2) Benton County: 003: Corvallis: 1847: Polk County: Named for Thomas Hart Benton, senator and advocate of U.S. annexation of the Oregon Country ...
The community is served by Clean Water Services for municipal sewer, and fire protection is provided by Washington County Fire District 2. [4] West Union lies within District 4 of the Washington County Board of Commissioners and is represented by Andy Duyck. [5] Municipal water service is available from the Tualatin Valley Water District. [4]
Forest Grove is located on the western edge of the Portland metropolitan area and the Willamette Valley. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.88 square miles (15.23 km 2), of which 5.74 square miles (14.87 km 2) is land and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km 2) is water. [15]
The Tualatin River and its drainage basin lie almost entirely within the county, which shares its boundaries with the Tualatin Valley. It is bordered on the west and north by the Northern Oregon Coast Range, on the south by the Chehalem Mountains, and on the north and east by the Tualatin Mountains, or West Hills.