EDITORIAL
2 • The Southwest Portland Post
The Southwest Portland Post
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Portland, OR 97219
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Neighborhoods request
mitigation for Multnomah
Blvd sewer construction
The City of Portland is improving
the Fanno Pump Station and Pressure
Sewer Line along Multnomah Blvd. for
the second time in less than 10 years.
This project directly affects at least five
of the seventeen neighborhood associa-
tions within the Southwest Neighbor-
hoods Inc. (SWNI) coalition.
We have been meeting with Bureau
of Environmental Services staff about
the many impacts this large construc-
tion project will have in our neighbor-
hoods—fresh on our minds from the
last round of construction—and ask
the City to do a better job and improve
neighborhood livability.
We request that the City of Portland,
through a combined effort of the Bureau
of Environmental Services and Portland
Bureau of Transportation, take the fol-
July 2009
lowing actions to minimize the negative
impacts of construction and create a
safer and healthier community:
1. Noise and pollution must be mini-
mized. The city must incorporate the
draft City of Portland/Multnomah
County Clean Diesel Contracting Poli-
cies into the construction contracts to
minimize diesel emissions and limit
idling. The city should seek funding
for diesel engine retrofits for all on-
road and off-road construction equip-
ment that does not meet current EPA
standards; require the use of ultra-low
sulfur fuels, and limit idling;
2. Noise and pollution must be mini-
mized not just in the Multnomah Blvd
corridor but also on haul routes on SW
Bertha Blvd, SW 45 th Ave, SW Vermont
St, and SW Oleson Road, and on the de-
tour routes. The city must require haul
trucks as well as construction equipment
to minimize noise, diesel emissions and
dust as they travel through and work in
our neighborhoods. Roadway damage
on haul routes and detour routes must
be repaired and restored;
3. The bike lanes and shoulders along
Multnomah Blvd. must be left in a bet-
ter condition after construction than
before, with sidewalks and bike lanes,
or at minimum, wide, walkable bike
paths; and
4. Garden Home Road (from SW
45 th Ave to Multnomah Boulevard at
SW 69 th Ave) should not be used as a
detour. Our concern is that even if this
street is not designated as a detour, it
will receive extra traffic from SW Port-
land residents and our neighbors from
Washington County. The hilly, wind-
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