PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A project aiming to filter Portland’s drinking water is now estimated to cost an additional $450 million, city officials have announced. On Thursday, the Portland Water Bureau ...

The ruling by the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals favors the city’s plans to build a plant to filter water from the forested watershed. A demonstration of operations at a pilot water treatment plant, ...

Construction crews will return to work June 30 to meet a federally mandated September 2027 deadline for Portland, Ore., to complete a new plant that will filter its drinking water. After substantial ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A seven-year project to purify water in Portland is finally set to break ground. Since 2017, the Bull Run Watershed has routinely tested positive for dangerous parasites – ...

The price tag for Portland’s water filtration project has increased to $2.56 billion, and water officials said Thursday they’re hoping to push back a looming deadline to start filtering the city’s ...

Workers clearing the way last summer for a new West Parish Water Treatment Plant found soil contaminated by PCBs, a discovery that is expected to delay an expensive project already under a tight ...

All sorts of nasties—lead, mercury, radium, nitrates, norovirus, agricultural runoff, PFAS, and more—can lurk in your water. No surprise, then, that about 40% of U.S. homes filter theirs. But the ...