On a deadline, Portland water filtration plant project hits community resistance and skyrocketing costs

The plant was estimated in 2017 to cost between $350 and $500 million. Today, that cost has jumped to more than $1.8 billion.

BORING, Ore. —

Ian and Lauren Courter bought their home about 20 miles east of Portland to get away from it all. 

The couple has four children and grows 10 acres of blueberries on their property near the border of Multnomah and Clackamas counties. 

“We moved out here really for the serenity of this site, for its natural resources and the opportunity to essentially have a small hobby farm,” Ian Courter said. 

But the Courters and many of their neighbors fear that

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