How did Captain Lewis Love view the Columbia Slough?
How did he make use of it?
How did community boosters promote the North Portland
peninsula?
How did the North Portland Peninsula fit into the Portland
transportation system during the early twentieth century?
How was the Kenton community created? What role did
the Columbia Slough play in its development?
What kind of community services were available in early
Kenton?
How has Kenton changed since the early twentieth century?
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
What was the goal of establishing the Port of Portland?
What is the purpose of the 1935 Act relating to the
taking of gravel, rock, and sand from navigable streams?
By what means did the Port of Portland
acquire the Leadbetter land? Why?
What role did Swan Island play in industrial development
of the North Portland Peninsula?
How does dredging change a waterway? What is the connection
between dredging and the groundwater movement chart?
Why does the Port of Portland feel it must dredge the
Columbia to a greater depth?
What plans does the Port of Portland have for West Hayden
Island?
Why does the Port of Portland plan to dredge a deeper
marine port and expand into West Hayden Island? What
other options might be considered?
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 against
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
Where was the original Portland-Columbia Airport built?
How was it funded? How did the airport fit into slough
communities?
How did the Port of Portland acquire land for airport
expansion?
What two entities were involved in airport expansion?
How did community residents feel about airport expansion
in the late 1960s? Why?
Why did Governor Tom McCall support airport expansion?
What connections are there between airport expansion
and the waterways of the slough and the Columbia River?
What alternative expansion plans did the 1974 Environmental
Impact Statement propose?
What environmental issues are involved with de-icing
runways at the Portland International Airport? How does
this connect with the Columbia Slough?
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
Why was the St. Johns area chosen for a landfill?
How did some area residents feel about having a landfill
and incinerator in their neighborhood?
What position did the Central Labor Council of Portland
take on building a landfill? Why?
Oregonian
pollution Article
PSU
student work -- oral history excerpts -- Changing Economies
on the Columbia Slough
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
How have industries developed in slough communities
degraded the waterway?
In what ways do you think industrial development has
benefited slough communities? In what ways has it harmed
them?
What relationship do future plans for
the Columbia River have with the Columbia Slough?
What is the city of Portland doing about pollution from
the St. Johns Landfill?
