Image: Aerial photo of the McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Company Superfund Site
ASLA Oregon Mt. Hood Section in partnership with Northwest Playground Equipment, Inc. are pleased to announce Portland Harbor Restoration Ecology: Lessons from the 2005 Remediation of the McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Company Superfund Site. (1 PDW)
Michael Geffel will be our guide of the walking tour of the McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Company Superfund Site. Michael Geffel is a design principal of LND LAB, a landscape architecture practice that (re)directs maintenance & operations to socially activate and ecologically regenerate fallow landscapes. Prior to this, Michael was Professor of Practice at the University of Oregon where he founded the Fuller Initiative Land Lab, an award-winning and internationally recognized model of design research, education, and service. Michael received a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia and a B.S. in Geography from the University of Oregon. He has professional experience working on public urban landscapes, landscapes on structure, and green infrastructure following a previous career in horticulture and restoration contracting.
McCormick and Baxter Creosoting Company was the first industrial property in the Portland Harbor to be designated a superfund site and remediated. The project was completed in 2006 using best management practices and included a large restoration planting of native riparian forest, savanna, and prairie. Twenty years later, we are able to evaluate the performance of the project to inform future remediation plans for the Portland Harbor. In negotiating a potential purchaser agreement for the property, the Portland Botanical Gardens recently performed a botanical survey of the restoration and will be presenting their findings to ASLA
Walking tour to be followed by a happy hour at McMenamins St. Johns Theater & Pub sponsored by Northwest Playground Equipment, Inc..
Register for the Portland Harbor Restoration Ecology event by 5/12 Here
When: Thursday May 15, 2025.
Meeting Point: McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Company Superfund Site (Parking at UP Physical Plant, 6210 N Van Houten Pl, Portland, OR 97203.
Meeting Time: 2.45 p.m.
Start Time: Walking tour to begin promptly at 3 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Tour Guide: Michael Geffel of LND LAB.
Happy Hour: McMenamins St. Johns Theater & Pub. First round of drinks and appetizers hosted by NW Playground.
RSVP for Happy Hour by May 12, 2025. Space limited to the first 15 RSVPs.
