Portland Harbor Superfund Site

Portland, OR

This site is the commercial harbor of Portland on the Willamette River immediately upriver from the junction with the Columbia River. The site was added to the EPA Superfund list in 2000 and since that time, EPA identified approximately 80 potentially responsible parties (PRPs). Earlier in 2008, EPA sent letters to an additional 280 parties who may also be responsible. From those, fourteen PRPs comprise the Lower Willamette Group that has taken on the cleanup and is responsible for the Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study under an agreement with EPA.

The industrial site was originally listed because more than 6 miles of the Willamette River are contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, various metals (lead, zinc, mercury, tin), pesticides, dioxins and other chemicals.

Resources

To learn more about the Willamette Riverkeeper, click here…

For updates on the Community Advisory Group, click here…

Click here for EPA’s Portland Harbor website…

Portland Harbor Superfund Site Draft Feasibility Study Report

The Remedial Investigation, Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment and Baseline Human Health Risk Assessment, which together serve as the foundation for designing the cleanup.

ESC Documents

Click here to view the Portland Harbor Feasibility Study presentation Peter delivered to the Portland Harbor Citizens Advisory Group, May 9, 2012.

Click here for the presentation on PCBs and Clean Up delivered by Peter at the First Annual Science Pub hosted by the Willamette River Keeper, April 3, 2012.

Click here to view the slide show of possible options for cleanup that will likely be considered in the upcoming the Feasibility Study which Peter presented to the Portland Harbor Citizens Advisory Group, March, 2010.

Click here to view ESC’s presentation to the Lower Willamette Group on the upcoming Feasibility Study, February, 2010

Burt Shepard’s presentation for EPA; April 2009 Portland Community Advisory Group meeting