An email notice about tomorrow's meeting on the North Portland Harbor Superfund site. The area includes the large, lovely and rarely used riverfront green space south of Cathedral Park and the St Johns Bridge. The green space was purchased by Metro over a decade ago and is essentially fallow land. However, it is part of Portland Harbor, which has a number of pollution issues (see text of email below). Worth a visit if you are interested in the waterfront, wildlife, salmon habitat, the North Portland Greenway trail, and all that good stuff. See below for details:

Most of you know that one of the largest Superfund sites in the country is adjacent to our Cathedral Park neighborhood. EPA representative, Judy Smith, will be the guest speaker at the next general meeting, Tuesday evening at 7pm to discuss a just-published $74million report which will be the basis of the EPA clean-up plan.

Remember Superfund directly affects our neighborhood, both because the river runs the length of our community and because adjacent land is affected. Questions that need to be addressed:

   1. Will kids, dogs & fishermen ever be able to safely use the Willamette River in St. Johns?

   2. Will there be more pollution storage areas (CDFs) near our residential neighborhood besides the one planned at T4?

   3. Can the Willamette Cove south of Cathedral Park be cleaned to enough to allow for the Willamette Greenway Trail?

According to the report, four chemical groups in the Portland Harbor — PCBs, chlorinated dioxins and furans, pesticide DDT and related breakdown products and PAHs — pose the most human and ecological risk.

The end result will be Portland’s largest-ever cleanup effort, which could possibly cost more than $1 billion.

Please come and learn what’s next and how to keep informed.

November 10, Tuesday evening at 7, BES Water Pollution Control Lab, 6543 N. Burlington,

Thanks,

Barbara Quinn, chair,

FCPNA