Portland's sewage system was a crapshoot. Then the 'Big Pipe' came along | The Story | Dec. 8, 2023
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Dec. 8 on The Story: Rains of the kind we've seen this last week present all kinds of problems, like flooding and slides. But there's a problem that often lurks beneath the surface, and it really stinks: sewage. Once upon a time, Portland's wastewater system overflowed dozens of times each year, depositing a mixture of sewage and stormwater into the Willamette River. But in the early '90s, we reached critical mass for a big change. It came in the form of the "Big Pipe" project, a herculean undertaking that took about a decade to complete. But the upside is that when it rains, it doesn't pour sewage into the river — mostly.
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