(portland, oregon)
Point Name: REMOVE TOXINS
Meridian: Liver
Location: Swan Island
Install dates: May 8 - August 3
Contaminated with heavy metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), dioxin/furans and pesticides, this stretch of the Willamette from the Fremont Bridge to the Columbia is one of EPA’s top priority Superfund clean up sites nationwide. Swan Island is also the site of Portland’s “Big Pipe”pump station which has greatly reduced sewage overflows and marks a huge improvement to the river’s well-being.
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