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By: Robert Moses and Portland Planning | Situating the Global Environment

Robert Moses and Portland Planning | Situating the Global Environment — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:56:21 +0000

[...] This link leads to a blog post on historian Carl Abbott’s blog about the role of Robert Moses in Portland planning during the mid-twentieth century: http://theurbanwest.com/portland/robert-moses-in-portland. [...]

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Sun, 20 May 2012 17:02:01 +0000

[...] In 1943, Portland city leaders benefited from the clout of renowned New York City planner Robert Moses to jump-start the sewage system plans that Eddy and Wolman had [...]

By: James V. Hillegas

James V. Hillegas — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:47:45 +0000

Thanks, Carl. I came upon this post as I was composing a blurb that will be part of my chapter focusing on the period 1939-1948 in the Willamette River pollution abatement saga. As you mention above and also in Portland (pp. 137-140), Moses’ report recommended a $12M proposal for sewer interceptors and a primary treatment facility. My research has discovered that Abel Wolman and his team had first developed this proposal as part of their 1939 report to the City of Portland.

The section in my book covering Moses’ involvement in the Portland sewer issue will be relatively concise, but it is highly important. City officials had been dragging their feet on adequately funding and preparing to build the sewer improvements since early 1939, and Moses’ report provided the leverage that advocates and a core group of city commissioners had long sought.

This vignette provides a fascinating example of the ways in which external pressure and/or assistance can often be quite helpful in generating positive changes at the local level. Moses’ report spurred acceptance of Wolman’s recommendations, and Wolman’s recommendations were spurred by his leadership of the National Resources Planning Board’s (NRPB) Water Resources Committee; the NRPB had provided funding and guidance to the Oregon State Planning Board (OSPB) beginning in 1934, including assistance to a sub-committee of the OSPB that conducted research and generated recommendations that were essential in the formulation of the 1938 citizen’s initiative to create the Oregon State Sanitary Authority (OSSA).

By 1943, Portland city leaders were ignoring pressure from the OSSA and others to build the sewage interceptor and treatment system. Thus, Edgar Kaiser called-in Robert Moses to get the ball rolling in this and many other areas where Portland city leaders were failing.