According to the city of Spokane, Wash., the $125 million upgrade to the Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility will create the most effective phosphate removal process of its kind in the U.S.
Notable news items include the President budgeting $600 million for projects in Washington and Oregon, progress on Amazon’s new Seattle campus, Alaska’s construction spending outlook, and more.
When the U.S. Congress adjourned in December, it scrapped a water-rights settlement package meant to end years of bitter haggling in California and Oregon’s Klamath Basin among farmers, fishermen, utilities ratepayers and environmentalists.
More than half of Oregon’s state highway system bridges—that’s more than half of the 2,700 bridges the state department of transportation owns, not even counting the other 4,000 owned by cities and counties—were built in the 1950s and 19060s.
