Briefly.Byline: The Register-Guard Belt Line Road traffic to slow for work in area Traffic will slow to 15 mph on Belt Line Road between 10 p.m. today and 4 a.m. Monday because Comcast/XL Cable will be doing work in the area, state transportation officials said. The slowdown will affect eastbound and westbound traffic on Belt Line between the Northwest Expressway Northwest Expressway may refer to:
Kulongoski offers plan for Columbia dredging dredging, process of excavating materials underwater. It is used to deepen waterways, harbors, and docks and for mining alluvial mineral deposits, including tin, gold, and diamonds. PORTLAND - Gov. Ted Kulongoski Theodore R. "Ted" Kulongoski (born November 5 1940, in rural Missouri[1]) is an American Democratic politician. Since 2003, he has served as the Governor of Oregon. He was re-elected in 2006. is the latest leader to wade into the murky impasse over deepening the Columbia River Columbia River River, southwestern Canada and northwestern U.S. Rising in the Canadian Rockies, it flows through Washington state, entering the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Ore.; it has a total length of 1,240 mi (2,000 km). shipping channel. Advisers for Kulongoski are floating the possibility of reconfiguring plans for two of the sites near Astoria that would be transformed into wetlands by using large amounts of dredge spoils. But that idea has drawn the ire of Clatsop County officials, who say the plan fails to erase deep concerns about the project's effects on salmon and the livelihood of fishermen. The disagreement between federal officials and downriver down·riv·er adv. & adj. Toward or near the mouth of a river; in the direction of the current: swam downriver; a downriver canoe race. Adv. 1. communities centers on a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plan to use large amounts of dredge spoils from the proposed deepening project to restore wetlands in the river's estuary. The dispute has delayed state environmental approvals needed to move the $133.6 million project forward. |
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