Water System Improvements

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The Portland Water Bureau improves our water system every day by maintaining, repairing, and upgrading our infrastructure. We invest in our water system to keep our infrastructure up to date and increase our ability to provide water during and after emergencies.
Workers connect a fire hydrant to the water system.

Featured content

An illustration show two Portland Water Bureau employees wearing hard hats and vests guiding a pipe that is being lowered into a whole dug into a street.

Building for the future

Four water bureau employees pose for a picture standing in front of their truck with equipment showing

What to expect during a Water Bureau construction project

Three Water Bureau employees wearing high vis vests and hard hats use shovels to remove concrete from a hole in a street. A vertical blue stripe with wavy lines covers the right of the image. A light blue icon with an email symbol overlays the image.

Sign up for Water or project newsletters

Active construction site. A worker bends over to hand a pipe to another worker inside a concrete pit.

Current major construction projects

An artist rendering highlights the redesigned Reservoir 4, with a riparian meadow in the foreground and the Vista Bridge and Downtown Portland in the background.

Washington Park Reservoir project overview

Type treatment for the Filtration project with Bull Run Treatment Projects stacked on the left a thin line in the middle and Filtration on the right

About the Bull Run Filtration Project

Two construction workers standing in a square hole dug in the road with mud up to their knees. They are both using saws to cut old pipe out of the hole.

Fixing water main breaks

Three photos of different flushing techniques. First is water flowing out of an orange hydrant and gently splashing on the curb and street with a blue sign behind saying "flushing our system to maintain water quality". The middle photo has a woman opening a valve on a hydrant that has a hose connected to it and water is spraying out the end of the hose. The last photo is of a orange hydrant that has a red box - the autoflusher - attached to the side and water is splashing out the bottom of the box.

Maintaining water quality with hydrant flushing

screenshot of a map with blue areas outlining locations where projects are happening

Map of major Water system improvement projects

Contact

Water Construction Project Outreach

waterprojects@portlandoregon.gov
phone number503-823-0102

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Related offices, programs, advisory groups, and projects

map of Bull Run Treatment Projects in east Multnomah County, including the Improved Corrosion Control Treatment project off of Lusted Road and the Filtration project between Dodge Park Blvd and Bluff Road

Bull Run Treatment

In this artist's rendering, park-goers stroll along the reflecting pool at Washington Park Reservoir.

Washington Park Reservoirs Improvement Project

Bridge looking over the Willamette with pipes illistated below the water and soil is visible.

Willamette River Crossing Project

Nighttime photo of Mt. Tabor reservoir with the lights of downtown Portland twinkling in the background

Mount Tabor Reservoirs

Concrete dam with lake behind it and surrounded by forest with fall colors on the trees

Water

News

Bull Run Treatment Projects Update - January 2024

Please read our January 2024 Bull Run Treatment Projects Update.

Newsletter

Bull Run Treatment Projects Update - December 2023

Please read our December 2023 Bull Run Treatment Project Update.

Newsletter

Bull Run Treatment Projects Construction Activity Update - November 20, 2023

Please read the November 20, 2023 Bull Run Treatment Project Construction Activity Update.

Newsletter

Bull Run Treatment Projects Construction Activity Update - November 14, 2023

Please read the November 14, 2023 Bull Run Treatment Project Construction Activity Update.

Newsletter

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Past Meetings and Hearings

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