December 28, 2023 2:01 pm
Government, Life, News, Washougal 
Port of Camas-Washougal employees load a tree trunk onto a trailer at Grove Field to transport it to Lawton Creek in 2023. (Contributed photos courtesy of the Port of Camas-Washougal)
The Port of Camas-Washougal completed mitigation work at the south section of Lawton Creek in 2023, in order to provide additional protection to its levee system.
The Port of Camas-Washougal has completed a mitigation project at Lawton Creek that will provide its Columbia River levee system with additional protection.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created the 5.5-mile levee along the Columbia River, west of the Steigerwald National Wildlife Refuge, in 1966 to reduce the area’s flood risk.
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