American Dream

When it rains, sewers spill

Why is Portland developing the Pearl district ,Macadam project
along with Many other high density projects when the capacity
of the sewers can’t handle them.

Every time it rains in Portland, the sewers dump raw sewage into
The Willamette river . Even when the new big dig is finished in
2011 to 2020, Portland still will not stop all the dumping. You
would think Environmentally friendly Portland planners would have
Planned better.

I find it odd, that the City of Portland and the commissioners
feel they are being singled out. Portland’s down town receives
the lions share of tax abatements, historical tax breaks and
$10 of millions in urban renewal subsidies yet they don’t use
it to do the most pressing problem in the city, their sewers.

Portland has millions of dollars to subsidize Baseball Stadiums,
Trams, and expensive streetcar projects, extending Light Rail,
expanding the Convention Center and adding a taxpayer subsidized
convention center motel.

Maybe the Mayor & Commissioners should stop pointing the finger
of blame and get their priorities straight.