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Stay out of the water: Weekend downpour triggers Portland sewage overflow into the Willamette Updated Dec 20, 2020; Facebook Share Portland sewage spilled into the Willamette River on Sunday as the weekend’s heavy rainfall overwhelmed the capacity of the city’s water treatment facilities. Sewage is pouring into the river at eight spots between the Ross Island Bridge and Swan Island. The Portland Bureau of Environmental Services says people should stay out of the water for 48 hours after the overflow ends to avoid potentially dangerous bacteria. The bureau said the ongoing outflow Sunday ...

Will 2020 Be The First Sewage-Free Year For The Willamette River? In a year where good news seems scarce, Portland may reach a historic milestone for Willamette River water quality. The year 2020 is on track to be the first in modern history with zero combined sewer overflows to the river. That’s a triumph of Portland’s investment in the Big Pipe Project, the $1.4B 20-year-long public infrastructure project that dramatically reduced such incidents and changed Portland’s relationship with its river. Overflows that used to be common - occurring about 50 times a rainy season, sometimes for...

Welcome back. amazing medical breakthroughs are breathing new life into america's wounded warriors. coming up, a bionic man who is ready to return to battle. but first, i want to take a look at some of the other stories that we're following for you in the news tonight. first bp says it's going to try again to stop that leak that has gushed millions of gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico. the latest attempt, you heard it here, will involve a tube designed to be inserted into the ruptured pipe, collect the oil, and then send it to a vessel which will be on the surface. at the white house to...

Out of there than what we originally thought half. is bp saying about that? >> reporter: well, rick, this edebate all getting started when this video went out. different experts across the country using their own calculations to come up with their own much greater numbers. bp is now saying that they're not taking some things into consideration, that this type of oil expands when it reaches water, that they really don't have a perspective on the size of the pipe, that they don't understand that it's mixed with natural gas. all sorts of factors saying it's not really proper to try and quantify t...

Since this disaster began. >> the sense i get after that prop that you just used to show us is that's a hell of a lot of oil. by the way, i can't count how many different solutions have already been suggest order tried or eliminated or just failed. where are we now, david? what is the next plan? >> right now they've got a plan in play they've never tried before. not just at this depth, but never, ever before. they're inserting a tube inside that big pipe, a tube to go in there with seals around it to close that off. so their hope is that will be working. they hope to get it working possibly so...