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WASHOUGAL When families sit down Thursday for Thanksgiving dinner, they likely won’t find wapato among the dishes covering the table. But for the Chinook Indians, the wetland tuber that tastes much like potatoes was a diet staple that helped see them through the winter months.
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Metro Will Now Consider Full Cleanup of Contamination at Willamette Cove Councilor Sam Chase successfully pushes his colleagues to entertain doing more than DEQ recommended. Willamette Cove. (Justin Katigbak) Updated December 11, 2020 The Metro Council heard from dozens of members of the public today who were at times emotional and at others incredulous that the council would recommend anything less than a full cleanup of Willamette Cove, a heavily contaminated 27-acre parcel of riverfront property the agency owns in North Portland.