Group empowering community members to help shape future of contaminated Willamette Cove property

When Wilma Alcock was young, she fished all the time on the Willamette River, eating the bluegills, perch and crappie she and her family caught.

Read the write-up about the Portland Harbor Community Coalition at Metro’s website.

“It got to the point where we couldn’t eat the fish because it was so toxic and dangerous,” the now-80-year-old recalls. “That is something that has been taken from people that loved to fish that area.”