Portland’s Big Pipe hit 100% capacity at about 6:26 a.m. Thursday. That does not mean the system failed. It means the city’s giant underground overflow tunnels filled up during heavy rain, leaving no ...
Water watchers know: Sometimes, you can’t swim in the Willamette River. That’s because when the wastewater system gets inundated with water, it overflows, sending raw sewage into the river that ...