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  1. Who is watching the river? The largest sources of water pollution in Oregon aren’t monitored well, if at all.

    The Clean Water Act of 1972 made it a lot harder for industrial facilities to dump large amounts of toxic materials into U.S. waterways with the institution of a permitting process with limits on toxic releases – it put a stop to many of the activities th ...

    23 Oct 2014 - Emily Green

  2. Safe to swim? What the experts have to say about the risks of taking a dip in the Willamette River

    Since the completion of the Big Pipe project in 2011, which stopped Portland’s sewage from spilling into the Willamette River during rainstorms, there’s been a movement led by Human Access Project to change the public’s perception about swimming in the ri ...

    27 Aug 2014 - Emily Green

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