The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $1 billion in infrastructure improvements September 16 through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grants program. Funding has been awarded… Read More
Oregon
The Columbia River System Operations final environmental impact statement (EIS) was released July 31. It declined to recommend the closure and decommissioning of the four lower Snake River dams, as desired… Read More
A draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Columbia River System, the culmination of a years-long process, rejected calls to breach dams on the lower Snake River. The Corps of… Read More
Bonneville Lock and Dam on the Columbia River reopened on the evening of September 27 after having been closed since September 8. The Corps of Engineers had originally predicted an… Read More
The Port of Morrow, Ore., which sits on the Columbia River in the town of Boardman, was one of the 14 recipients of port-related grants from the Department of Transportation’s… Read More
FLIR Systems Inc., Wilsonville, Ore., announced October 16 that it has been awarded a contract from the Department of Homeland Security in support of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Second-Generation Automatic… Read More
