News City Commissioner Amanda Fritz is shopping for pool covers.  Fritz has been making the rounds at City Hall pushing a plan to install plastic floating “membrane” covers to protect Portla   More

News On July 21, Multnomah County and city officials warned Portlanders that their drinking water had tested positive for E. coli...   More

News Among the small-ticket items in the Portland Water Bureau's budget that tick off grumpy ratepayers are the city's many decorative fountains, which the Water Bureau has maintained under a longstanding agreement with city parks officials.That cost to ratepayers is such a frequent source of grumbling, it rated a mention in Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade's recent report on how ratepayer dollars are spent ...   More

News The Portland Water Bureau, recently the subject of a critical financial audit, has hired a formerly retired Water Bureau employee to update the history of—you guessed it—the Portland Water Bureau.Casey Short, a longtime city employee who first got a job in city government with former Mayor Frank Ivancie in 1982, wrote the original history of the utility bureau in 1983. That book, called Water: ...   More

News Next month, the Portland Water Bureau unveils its prototype for a "water house," an eco-friendly home more than one year in the making. Located in the Russell neighborhood in Northeast Portland, the new home "showcases water-efficient practices through innovative local green building partnerships," according to a press release from the Water Bureau that announces a Jan. 19 open house at the ...   More

News  Next month, the Portland Water Bureau unveils its prototype for a “water house,” an eco-friendly home more than one year in the making.Located in the Russell neighborhood in Northeast Portland, the new home “showcases water-efficient practices through innovative local green building partnerships,” according to a press release from the Water Bureau that ...   More

News  Next month, the Portland Water Bureau unveils its prototype for a “water house,” an eco-friendly home more than one year in the making.Located in the Russell neighborhood in Northeast Portland, the new home “showcases water-efficient practices through innovative local green building partnerships,” according to a press release from the Water Bureau that ...   More

News The day after a bruising primary election looks and sounds like the debate at City Hall around 10:30 am today. That's when, during a discussion of water and sewer rates for fiscal year 2010, newly re-elected Commissioner Dan Saltzman came out swinging against an idea to use $10 million in water ratepayer money to pay for land in Northwest Portland. That industrial land would then be turned into ...   More