Water Environment Services
Do you like live music? Bring the entire family and join us for Milwaukie Porchfest on Friday, July 19 at the Kellogg Creek Water Resource Recovery Facility from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. African marimba band, Danda, will perform in Milwaukie Bay Park just below the Kellogg Creek facility. Enjoy refreshments alongside Milwaukie community members; you won’t want to miss this 9-member band playing uplifting dance music with their own acoustic handmade instruments!
About Danda:
WES is designing projects to help prevent Kellogg Creek and one of its tributaries from flooding roads and property near SE Clackamas and Thiessen roads.
Overview Map:
Culverts and ditch inlets in these locations are too small or clog too easily, causing stream backups that flood roads and private property.
A Culvert is a device, usually a pipe or arched tunnel, used to channel water underneath a road, railway, or other type of embankment.
Locations:
Map SE Wildlife Estates:
A nearby project on Adercrest Court is also under design.
Project Details:
WES is currently planning how to remove and replace these impediments to drainage. For SE Wildlife Estates Drive, WES will also design how to stabilize the stream’s banks to keep clog-causing sediments out.
The projects would reduce or end flooding. They would also improve fish and wildlife habitat.
Timing:
WES is designing a project to help prevent Kellogg Creek from flooding Aldercrest Court.
Kellogg Creek passes between SE Aldercrest Court and private homes to the west. It’s impeded by culverts and a concrete channel. The impeded creek floods the road, driveways and private property every year. The resulting backwater also worsens flooding upstream at SE Clackamas Road.
A Culvert is a device, usually a pipe or arched tunnel, used to channel water underneath a road, railway, or other type of embankment.
The project involves replacing culverts under driveways that are too narrow, and replacing or removing other impediments that cause the creek to back up. The project would also improve fish and wildlife habitat.
Along Aldercrest Court, coordination with private properties is required. WES can design the project only with landowners’ permissions. We’ve reached out to several affected landowners and are beginning to work with all of them to design a project.
Location:
Kellogg Creek between SE Clackamas Road and SE Thiessen Road
Project Details:
WES is working with several property owners to remove and replace culverts and create opportunities to restore areas of the creek to slow the flow of water. The project would reduce flooding. It would also improve fish and wildlife habitat.
Map:
Timing:
WES has American Rescue Plan Act funding that expires at the end of this year. We’ll use these funds for this project. Construction would start in 2025, likely in summer.
Help us prevent polluting our streams and underground drinking water supplies.
Report sewer or stormwater problems or concerns, such as a sewer spill or illegal dumping into a storm drain.
Thank you for helping us to protect public health and the environment!
Are you interested in providing wildlife habitat, better water quality, and erosion control on a creek, stream, or river? Then join Clackamas Soil & Water Conservation District for a two-part streamside restoration workshop that includes a blend of presentations and hands-on learning.
In this two-day free workshop series, participants will learn:
Join in the fun and paddle from King City Community Park to Tualatin Community Park.
This self-guided 3.8-mile paddle hosted by Tualatin Riverkeepers includes a guidebook highlighting wildlife and history specific to this section of the river. Volunteer safety boats will be stationed along the route to ensure a safe event. Boats will launch at 15-minute intervals from 8:45am to 11:30am and participants will paddle downriver. Bathrooms, refreshments, and representatives from our sponsoring organizations will be there to greet you at the takeout site.
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