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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

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Rain this week too much for Portland’s Big Pipe

The Columbian
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PORTLAND — Portland’s sewage overflowed into the Willamette River for the third time this year during Wednesday’s rain storm.

The city’s Environmental Services Bureau says it was just too much, despite the $1.4 billion Big Pipe project that was completed three years ago.

Spokesman Linc Mann tells KATU the project has been a success in controlling sewer overflows but it can’t prevent them all.

He says there used to be 50 overflows a year. There have been just 10 since the 2011 project.

Wednesday’s storm dropped 1.8 inches of rain at Portland International Airport, breaking the old mark of 1.31 inches set in 1951.

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