Portland District Brochures and Publications
The Portland District Public Affairs Office has numerous publications available to the general public including project brochures, fact sheets and water resource books. Below is a list of these available publications. If you are interested in receiving any of them, send your request to the Public Affairs Office.
Written requests for publications can be mailed to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 2946, Portland, Oregon 97208-2946. Or, please visit our Information Center, located on the first floor of the Robert Duncan Plaza, 333 S.W. First Avenue in Portland, Oregon. We also can be reached by calling (503) 808-5150, or (503) 808-4515 (Fax). The Information Center is open Mon-Fri (except federal holidays) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Portland District Project Brochures.
- Applegate Lake
- Blue River Lake
- Bonneville Lock and Dam
- Cottage Grove Lake
- Cougar Lake
- Detroit and Big Cliff lakes
- Dorena Lake
- Fall Creek Lake
- Fern Ridge Lake
- Green Peter and Foster lakes
- Hills Creek Lake
- Lookout Point and Dexter lakes
- Lost Creek Lake
- Mount St. Helens
- Oregon Coastal Harbors
- The Dalles/John Day/Willow Creek Dams
- Willamette Falls Locks
USACE Recreation Brochures
- USACE National Brochure - Print size 52" x 36"
- Campgrounds Map - Facilities
- USACE Recreation Brochures - Print size 36" x 27"
- Midwest Map - Facilities
- Northeast Map - Facilities
- Southeast Map - Facilities
- West Map - Facilities
Topic Brochures
Some of these documents are provided in Portable Document Format" (.pdf) and must be viewed using Acrobat Reader or comparable viewer. A free downloadable copy of Acrobat Reader is available from Adobe.
- Anchor Safely
- Comparing the Big Dams
- How Electricity is Generated at a Dam
- How to Lock Through
- Hydropower in the U.S.
- Recognizing Wetlands
- Small Craft Handling
- To Save the Salmon (930 kbytes)
- Understanding Coastal Jetties
- Water Safety
Books
- Currents of Change: A History of the Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1980-2000
- Water Resources Development in Oregon 2000
- Water Resources Development in Oregon 1997
- Water Resources Development in Oregon 1995
- 2003 Annual Fish Passage Report Columbia and Snake rivers pdf 4.5 Mbytes
- 2002 Annual Fish Passage Report Columbia and Snake rivers pdf 3.2 Mbytes
- Army Engineers and the Development of Oregon: A History of the Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: 1980 (Mail your request to Information Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 2946, Portland, OR 97208-2946.)
- Water Power in the "Wilderness": The History of Bonneville Lock and Dam (There is a $9.95, plus $2, for this book. Please make checks payable to "NW Interpretive Association." Mail your request for this book to: NW Interpretive Association, c/o Bonneville Lock and Dam, Cascade Locks, OR 97014-0150.)
- Fisheries Handbook of Engineering Requirements and Biological Criteria, by Milo C. Bell: 1991. (This report is available only through the National Technical Information Center.)
Written requests for publications can be mailed to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 2946, Portland, Oregon 97208-2946. We also can be reached by calling (503) 808-5150, or (503) 808-4515 (Fax).