Public comment period opens for Cascade Renewable Transmission Project Environmental Impact Statement. The proposed project route would run from The Dalles to Portland.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Portland District is extending the public comment period by 15 days and adding an in-person information session in Stayton, Ore., for a draft study that considers changes to how the agency operates its Willamette Valley dams.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Portland District is seeking public input on a draft study that considers changes to how the agency operates its Willamette Valley dams.

A contractor places stones on the South Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River, as part of the rehabilitation work the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers undertook. The work, carried out by contractor J.E. McAmis, included rebuilding three miles of the jetty’s trunk and head with more than 462,000 tons of stone, some weighing up to 40 tons each. South Jetty’s rehabilitation was part of a decade-long effort to restore the three jetties at the mouth of the Columbia River that protect one of the nation’s busiest trade corridors. (Photo provided by J.E. McAmis)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Portland District (USACE) will move forward this spring with a two-year safety and seismic repair project at Willamette Falls Locks ahead of the agency’s official transfer of the historic navigation lock system to the Willamette Falls Locks Authority, expected to take place in 2026. This image, from June 2019, offers a view from just downstream of the four-lock system, located at Willamette Falls between West Linn and Oregon City.

Trees and aquatic vegetation grow close to the SRS which was barren 40 years ago.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District (USACE) will not perform a deep drawdown at Detroit Reservoir in the fall of 2025.