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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.
The government of Portland, Oregon is based on a city commission government system. Elected officials include the mayor, commissioners, and a city auditor.The mayor and commissioners (members of City Council) are responsible for legislative policy and oversee the various bureaus that oversee the day-to-day operation of the city. [1]
By February, the city decided to continue providing services to Hazelnut Grove. Although they cut funding to landscaping, storage, and fencing services, the city continued to provide sanitary stations and trash pickup. The mayor's office stated that those services would remain for as long as residents continued to camp there. [14]
Guild's Lake (also Guild Lake [1] [2]) was a flood-prone lowland near the confluence of Balch Creek with the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. [3] Indigenous Multnomah people established villages on nearby Sauvie Island but not in the swampy area along the Balch Creek side of the river in what later became northwest Portland. [4]
It was established in the Sunderland neighborhood near the Portland Airport. [4] The group agreed to pay $2,000 in monthly rent, $17,500 per year for toilets and over $5,000 per year for garbage services. [5] Repeated attempts to shut down the campsite were rebuffed by the Portland City Council.
An SUV slammed into a Portland home on Christmas Eve, igniting a massive blaze at a property that has been the scene of nearly 30 car accidents over the last decades according to neighbors, with ...
The Portland Loo is a type of single-occupancy public toilet designed by the city of Portland, Oregon. [1] It is manufactured, sold, and marketed by the Portland-based manufacturer Madden Fabrication under license from the city, [2] [3] for $96,000 each. [4] The first unit was installed in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood in Portland in 2008 ...
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