"Port of Portland" - This used to be the Portland Gas and Coke Company (GASCO) building. It was built around 1917. Gasco is actually an EPA Superfund site, scheduled for cleanup in winter 2004/2005. Apparently, sediment along the riverbank and river bottom is contaminated with tars containing polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and benzene. YUCK!!! You can read about it at http://mapping.orr.noaa.gov/website/portal/portland/earlyaction.html The site is fenced in and I had to stand in the back of my pickup to get this shot looking over the fence. Behind the building are several large storage tanks. It was impossible to get a shot without the tanks in the background, so I used brightness and contrast to remove them. - Michael Newton Photography

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Michael > On the beach in Cancun, near the Hard Rock Cafe.

Michael > "Port of Portland" - This used to be the Portland Gas and Coke Company (GASCO) building. It was built around 1917. Gasco is actually an EPA Superfund site, scheduled for cleanup in winter 2004/2005. Apparently, sediment along the riverbank and river bottom is contaminated with tars containing polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and benzene. YUCK!!! You can read about it at

http://mapping.orr.noaa.gov/website/portal/portland/earlyaction.html

The site is fenced in and I had to stand in the back of my pickup to get this shot looking over the fence. Behind the building are several large storage tanks. It was impossible to get a shot without the tanks in the background, so I used brightness and contrast to remove them.

Michael > Belize - Barrier reef island #7

Michael > Belize - Barrier reef island #7 - with border

Michael > "Longview Bridge" - A view of one of the main support piers of the Longview Bridge. This photo was taken from the center of the Columbia River shipping channel, looking towards Oregon.

On March 29, 1930, the Longview Bridge (later renamed Lewis and Clark Bridge) opens. The bridge crosses the Columbia River between Longview (Cowlitz County) and Rainier, Oregon. It is a cantilever bridge, at the time the longest and highest in the country. It is 8,192 feet long. The roadway spans the river 210 feet above the water, and the top steel spans it at 340 feet. The designers claim that any vessel then in existence, including fully rigged clipper ships, could pass under it.

The bridge was designed by famed engineer Joseph Baermann Strauss (1870-1938), who also designed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge has steel piers and a steel superstructure, and is approximately one mile long.

The bridge is now (2003) part of SR 433. It began as a privately owned toll bridge. The state bought the bridge in 1947 and replaced wooden approach spans with steel and concrete approach spans. Tolls were removed in 1965. In 1980 the bridge was rededicated and renamed the Lewis and Clark Bridge.

Michael > Popular Prints > Lower South Falls 1

"Port of Portland" - This used to be the Portland Gas and Coke Company (GASCO) building. It was built around 1917. Gasco is actually an EPA Superfund site, scheduled for cleanup in winter 2004/2005. Apparently, sediment along the riverbank and river bottom is contaminated with tars containing polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and benzene. YUCK!!! You can read about it at

http://mapping.orr.noaa.gov/website/portal/portland/earlyaction.html

The site is fenced in and I had to stand in the back of my pickup to get this shot looking over the fence. Behind the building are several large storage tanks. It was impossible to get a shot without the tanks in the background, so I used brightness and contrast to remove them.