Screenshot of a Levee Ready Columbia video on YouTube
Levee Ready video screening at Jubitz Cinema
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Thank you to everyone who joined us at the movie theater at the Jubitz Travel Center last night for a screening of our new educational videos! With the help of Blue Chalk media, we've produced several videos that highlight the...
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Vanport Mosaic Festival Flyer for 2017
First Annual Vanport Mosaic Festival
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Thanks to everyone who came out for the US Army Corps of Engineers' open houses in December...
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OPB: Vanport an Oregon Experience
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This week, OPB released a new edition of the Oregon Experience on the City of Vanport...
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2016 NORFMA Conference
Lessons from around the Northwest
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Staff from Levee Ready Columbia returned from Yakima, Washington and the Northwest Regional Regional Floodplain...
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Photo of people discussing levees during a 2016 technical forum
Partners Host Technical Forum
The Levee Ready Columbia partners met on September 14th to discuss next steps for strengthening state and federal partnerships and to hear staff reports on major program areas such as community outreach,  levee engineering assessments, the Rehabilitation and Inspection Program....
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Photo of people listening to a presentation at the NORFMA conference
Portland Levees in National Spotlight
This week the Levee Ready Columbia program is in the national spotlight as we welcome the National...
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Reed Wagner, Executive Director of Multnomah County Drainage District, talks about the history of the levees from a boat in the Columbia River
Portland Tribune: City hopes conference will help find a fix for Columbia levee
A week after floodwaters battered Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the nation’s leading...
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Multi-generational crowd views 'The Wake of Vanport' at the April 2016 screening
The Skanner: You’re Invited to the Wake of Vanport
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“The Wake of Vanport” is so named to honor the death of a city and the viewing of its history through the collection...
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photo of O.B. Hill, 73, talking to Beaumont Middle School students about his life in the City of Vanport before the flood
Vanport will be topic of arts festival, gets its own book in vintage America series
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Sixty-eight years ago this month, Oregon's second-largest city vanished...
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