Willamette Riverkeeper

Over the years they have advocated, educated, and worked in a hands-on manner to improve conditions along the Willamette - with the support of many members of the general public.

The Willamette Riverkeeper team has made efforts to enforce the Clean Water Act, improve fish passage at the dams on tributaries of the Willamette River with the goal of restoring naturally reproducing populations of Spring Chinook and Winter Steelhead to the river system and to restore habitat.

[7] This legal action by Willamette Riverkeeper resulted in a settlement completed in 2008 that forced the US Army Corps and the Bonneville Power Administration to take steps to improve fish passage and restore habitat.

[8] The organization has also been responsible for bringing thousands of people to the river to canoe, kayak, paddle board, and swim over the years.

In January 2017, after 16 years of work, the Portland Harbor Superfund site's Record of Decision was completed, providing a template for how best to remove or separate contaminated sediments from the river bottom.

Willamette Riverkeeper worked to hold accountable the responsible parties and push them to take action in regard to the Cleanup, and to support the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in completing the Record of Decision.