U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers Document and Images, 1918 -- "Closing
the Columbia Slough"
A Glossary
of Flood Control Terms compiled by the League of Women Voters,
circa 1972
St. Johns Bridge
Poem by Celia Burley
St.
Johns Review - St. Johns Bridge Articles
Oregonian
Ad recruiting workers - September 20, 1942
Oregonian
Article, August 12, 1943 - "Celebration Marks Completion
of Vanport City"
Excerpt
from Vanport by Manly Maben - "Life in Vanport,"
courtesy of Oregon Historical
Society
Vanport
Resident's Handbook - courtesy of Oregon Historical Society
U.S. Department
of Commerce Weather Bureau Reports, "Daily River Bulletin,"
May 20-July 9, 1948
Accounts of the Vanport Flood
President
Truman speaks at the Civic Auditorium after the Vanport Flood
Section II: Berries,
Catfish and Carp: Survival on the Slough
Oregonian
article - "Blue Lake: Unhappy Hunting Ground"
Descriptions
of the effects of fever and ague
Donation
Land Claim Act of 1850
1905
McChesney Census documents
Letter
from the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Anson Dart, in 1851
Prices and Wages
in Early Portland
Oral
History quotes about subsistence on the slough
Statistics
- Japanese in Portland, 1890-1990
1923
Alien Exclusion Law
Executive
Order 9066
"Portland
Assemby Center: Diary of Saku Tomita," from Oregon Historical
Quarterly, Summer 1980
1945
Oregon State Alien Land Law
Exclusionary
clauses of the Oregon Constitution, 1859
Statistics
- African Americans in Portland and race in Oregon
1946
Vanport Study - "Elements of Tenant Instability in a War
Housing Project"
Oregon Journal
article, August 3, 1947 - "There's Another Vanport"
Northwest
Clarion Flood Accounts
Edna
Pittman's Account of the Vanport Flood
Map
of Census Tracts 22 and 23 in northeast Portland
Northeast
Coalition of Neighborhoods - Neighborhood Statistics
Northwest
Environmental Advocates File Suit Against the City of Portland
!Latin
News! article - Se Han Encontrado Pescados Contaminados En El
Columbia Slough
Section III: Hog Farms
and Sewers: Commercial Communities
"St.
Johns the City of Destiny" - From The Peninsula,
1909
Statistics
-- Portland population and density, mode of transportation and
streetcar lines
View
images of early Kenton
Advertisement
from the Kenton Spirit
Memories
of Industry on the Columbia Slough
An Act to establish and incorporate the Port of Portland
1935
Act relating to the taking of gravel, rock, and sand from navigable
streams
Oregonian
article - "Forced Sale"
Swan
Island Maps, 1897, 1965
Swan
Island Drydock Image
St.
Johns Floating Drydock Image
How
does dredging work? The Port of Portland explains
Groundwater
movement chart
Port
of Portland pamphlet about the Columbia River Channel Project
Port
of Portland's Statement of Need
West
Hayden Island Development Project
Swan
Island Airport Layout
Aerial
view of early Portland-Columbia Airport
WPA
Funds and Expenditures for the Portland-Columbia Airport
Port
of Portland Biennial Report, 1941-1942, "Portland Airport"
"Seventy
Years of Port Progress" in Portside Magazine
Letter
of dissent by Vancouver resident against Portland Aiport Expansion,
1968
Letter
of dissent by an eighth grade Vancouver resident againsst Airport
Expansion, 1968
Governor
Tom McCall letter supporting dredging and filling the Columbia
River for airport expansion, 1968
Letter
of dissent against Portland Aiport Expansion by Mrs. Doris M.
Gierloff, 1968
Summary
of Environmental Impact Statement, Portland Airport, 1974
1974
Airport Expansion
South
Runway Airport Expansion, 1974
Portside
article explaining de-icing at the Portland International Aiport,
Winter, 1998-1999
Petition
to the Portland Mayor against the St. Johns Landfill, 1930
Area
map of petitioner's residence
Architect's
support of an incinerator at the St. Johns Landfill, 1931
Central
Labor Council of Portland Letter, 1931
Oregonian
article -- "Economy Can't Trump Environment," January
26, 1996
Oregonian article -- "Erosion
is Nibbling Away at St. Johns Landfill," August 16, 1999
<Oregonian
article -- "St. Johns Landfill Gets a New Use," June
26, 1998
Section IV: Science
and Society in an Urban Landscape
The
Clean Air Act
The
National Environmental Policy Act
The
Clean Water Act
The
Endangered Species Act
Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds
Oregonian
article -- "Posting the Sewer Next Door," December
10. 1992
Northwest
Environmental Advocates Suit Against the City of Portland, 1991
Northwest
Environmental Advocates Suit Against the City of Portland, Circuit
Court, 1995
Northwest
Environmental Advocates Suit Against the City of Portland, Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals, 1996
Northwest
Environmental Advocates Suit reaches the Supreme Court
Columbia Slough
Ephemera
Summary Water Quality Report: Columbia Slough
Water Quality Management Plan, November 1988
DEQ
Oregon Water Quality Report, 1986-1995
TMDL
Fact Sheet
Northwest
Environmental Advocates Response to 1995 Sediment Studies
1997
Columbia Slough Water Quality Report, prepared for the Bureau
of Environmental Services by Scott Wells
The
Distribution and Transfer of Columbia Slough Sediments, Center
for Coastal and Land Margin Research Web Site
Contaminated
Sediment Transport in the Columbia Slough System
DEQ
Stormwater Discharge Permit
Endangered
Species Act Program, City of Portland
Willamette
River Basin Water Quality, Department of Environmental Quality
Web Site
Willamette
River Fact Sheet, American Heritage Rivers Web Site
Willamette
Riverkeeper Web Site
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Web Site
Section V: Recreating
the Slough
Excerpts
from the Report of the Park Board, Portland, Oregon, 1903
"Big Postwar
Industrial Center Proposed to Save Vanport City," October
22, 1944
Feasibility
Recommendations for the Vanport Site, 1958
Norman
Smale letter to Mike Houck, 1988, describing changes in the
Columbia Slough
Senate
Joint Resolution II, Authorizes the Columbia Slough Closure,
1969
Letter from Shaver Transportation
Company to the Corps of Engineers, June 22, 1968
Letter to the Editor of the
Press from Arthur A. Israelson, against the Columbia
Slough Development Corporation
Oregonian article - "Cruise discovers
'lost' canal," May 9, 1971 and response by Leo White of
the Multnomah Drainage District
Position of the League of Women
Voters on Rivergate Development
Oregonian article
- "Factions Curse or defend Oregon's Cinderella Slough"
Columbia Slough - Should it Be Saved
or Paved?" - The Press, May 10, 1972
Planners present alternative plans
for Columbia Slough" - The Press, May 31, 1972
Articles - "Straub Hits Closure
of Slough," and ""Channel for barges proposed
for slough"
Letter to the Port of Portland from
Superintendent of Parks, September 11, 1972
Letter from the Oregon Bass &
Panfish Club to the Environmental Task Force, August 18, 1972
Letter from Jamie Hart to Commissioner
Schwab, July 25, 1975 regarding Columbia Slough Flood Control
Project
Letter from Howard Galbraith to Commissioner
Schwab, October 13, 1975, advocating Plan #8
Letter from Lawrence Barber to Commissioner
Schwab, October 14, 1975, regarding recreation, navigation,
and slough closure
Columbia Slough Development proposal
for the formation of a local improvement district, January 19,
1977
Oregonian
Article, June 13, 1978 – "City Council report rates slough
dredging too costly"
Rivergate-North
Portland Survey Study: Flood Control and Drainage Subgroup Workshop
Notes, June 28, 1973
Mazamas support Plan
3
Game Commission Letter
to the Citizen's Resource Panel, July 26, 1972
Excerpt of Lieutenant William Broughton from the Journals of
Captain George Vancouver, 1792
Oregonian
article
- "Island Land Purchased," February 6, 1927
Oregon
Journal article
- "Formal Opening of Resort at 2:30 p.m.," May 26,
1928
Spectator
article
- "The Coney Island of the West," July 1942
Jantzen
Beach Center - "Jantzen Beach Merry-go-round"
Columbia
Steel Castings Suit, 1991
Columbia
Steel Castings Suit, 1992
Lawsuit
regarding Marine Drive
