Healthy Working Rivers

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Healthy Working Rivers

About the Office of Healthy Working Rivers

Ann Beier, Director

The Office of Healthy Working Rivers, in collaboration with other City programs, government partners, Neighborhood Associations, and stakeholders will be a catalyst for on-the-ground actions that support the City’s river goals.

In January 2009, City Council established the "Rivers Office" to bring a new focus to advancing the City’s river goals of achieving:

- a clean and healthy river,

- a prosperous working harbor,

- increased awareness of the river,

- a vibrant waterfront, and

- successful partnerships to implement river projects.

The Office provides leadership to promote the economic, transportation, ecological, and recreational roles of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. See the Office's most recent annual report here.

Contact the Office of Healthy Working Rivers

Mayor's Proposed 2013-14 Budget

see "Mayor’s Proposed Budget Decisions—Bureau Summaries"

[Rivers Office elimination--p. 4]

Connecting Our Community to Our Rivers

As directed by the City Council, Portland's Rivers Office works to connect Portlanders to the Willamette and Columbia Rivers and the benefits they provide: ecologic, economic, recreational, and social.

This "Rivers Office" website offers information from a wide variety of sources--governmental, non-profit, and private. Visitors are encouraged to note the sources as they build their understanding of the rivers running through our city.

Meet our Rivers!

Try our River School!
Browse our ever-changing video collection
of river talks about the Willamette and Columbia--
history, ecology, commerce and more!

We’ve also come up with an information kit to help you
get on, along, or into the Willamette! Take a look here!

We've collected Superfund info on a new page--
check it out here...
including the latest NEWS.

Willamette River Recreation Strategy. The Portland City Council recently accepted the Willamette River Recreation Strategy as the City's guide for river recreation and boating facility planning along the Willamette River in Portland. For more information, click here.

Take a look at what the Willamette's doing right now--
Thanks to TriMet's Bridge Cams!

To see more upcoming events and announcements, click here or on the image above.

Portland Salmon Celebration--May 12, 10 am - 1pm!

Celebrate our returning salmon with some Mother's Day fun at OMSI--FREE!

April 16 brownbag: Safe Passage--New Efforts to Get Salmon Past Willamette Basin Dams

Free brownbag describes innovative measures being taken to restore our Willamette salmon runs.

International Children’s Painting Competition on Environment -- Still Time to Enter!

Friday, March 15, is the deadline for having artwork in the hands of the judges.

December 18: New Floodplain Mapping Boosts River Understanding

In this month's river talk, Jim O'Connor of the US Geological Survey, describes how new and highly detailed floodplain maps of the Columbia & Willamette are boosting understanding of how our rivers work.

November 14: "Is your fish toxic?"

In this River in Focus brownbag, Columbia Riverkeeper describes its recent project that sampled Columbia River fish for toxics.

Questions? Call the Rivers Office at 503.823.0275, or email us.