A lower Columbia River organization opposing
a $196 million project to
deepen the Columbia River from Portland
to the river’s mouth filed a
civil rights complaint to stop the project.
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers plans to deepen 115 miles of
the Columbia River and Willamette
River channels from Portland to the river’s
mouth in order to
accommodate deeper draft ships.
The Columbia Deepening Opposition Group,
an organization concerned
mostly with environmental impacts of …
