The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Columbia River Crossing has been released.

JK: Being out of touch planners, they posted it ONLY in chapters, so you have to download a whole gaggle of files to get the whole thing.

I picked up one of their CDs Friday in hopes of getting it all in one file as promised. NOT! It was in a pile of little files, like the web site. So I assembled the little files into one large file, with appendix, in one 64 meg file at PortlandFacts.com

Here is the fun part.
The above only gets the DEIS and appendix.
There are also 5000+ pages of technical reports on the CD that they give out. I still haven’t sorted out how many are on the CRC web site, but I put the entire sub directory from their CD, at PortlandFacts in a single 400 meg zip file (don’t even try to download this on dial up).

Or you can drop by their office and get up to three free CDs, each with a nice little booklet about the project. Or you can buy a paper copy for $50.00. It did not look thick enough to include those 5000 pages of technical reports - that would be ½ a case of paper, about 10" thick (with double sided printing.)

Thanks
JK

Well Jim, not everyone is as tech savvy as you. Even a 64 MB download would crash a lot of home computers on less-than-modern internet connections. I say bravo to CRC staff for making thse document as accessible as they could.

I say bravo to CRC staff for making thse document as accessible as they could.

They could have nade both versions available. A lot of sites are doing that now days.

If you want the full report - you are going to spend the same abount of downloading time, the differenence is in wasting time downloading and printing 15-20 separate sections and assembling them.

Thanks
JK

JK - Thank you for providing this information. The CRC staff should have made everything available online.

Anyone who downloaded a 65 meg version should download the 95 meg version, as the shorter version is missing chaper 3 - My mistake, sorry.

Or get chapter 3 from the CRC site.

Thanks
JK

Thank you very much to Jim for putting it all in one place. At least a private citizen can do what our fairly well-funded government can't handle.

I have put the Milwaulkie SDEIS on line at PortlandFacts.com.

There are two files: the SDEIS and the appendix. (These are the only two files on the CD I got from Metro.)

Thanks
JK