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Levee Ready Columbia is a partnership of over twenty public, private, nonprofit, and community-based organizations committed to reducing the risk of flooding for an area critical to the region’s future and supporting the environment and recreational value of the lands along the Columbia River in the Portland metro region. A full list of the LRC project partners is available here.
Working together, the partnership is committed to:
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A timeline of Levee Ready Columbia’s major milestones and decisions is available below. To go directly to the structural issues we’ve identified that will need to be repaired to bring the levee system up to new federal standards, click here.
