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Remembering the Deluge - Thursday, 04 February 2016 00:00
2016-02-04 13:57:58| Agriculture - Topix.net
Twenty years ago - on Feb. 9, 1996 - record rainfall and snow melt combined to send the Willamette and Tualatin rivers surging over their banks and into area homes and businesses. And when the Tualatin River came rushing over the Oswego Canal headgate near Childs Road, it was more - four times more - than the lake was able to discharge at its McVey Avenue release point.
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