River System study ready to be released

County and port commissioners discussed port and county-related issues at a joint workshop session Monday. Port Commissioner Tom Kammerzell reminded all that at the end of the month a draft of the Environmental Impact Study will be released by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Bonneville Power Administration and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on the Columbia River System and the effects of dam removal.

“The EIS will be coming out Feb. 28 on our river system,” Kammerzell said. “That will open a 45-day comment period going until April 15. Everybody needs to send in a comment.”

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