Our Mission
As laid out in its founding legislation, the mission of the Willamette Falls Locks Authority is to establish ownership, oversight, and management of the Willamette Falls Locks project, for the purposes of:
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Enhancing the economic vitality of Oregon through facilitating the resiliency and navigability of the Willamette River.
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Repairing, maintaining, upgrading, and operating the Willamette Falls Locks project and associated properties and facilities for commercial, transportation, recreational, cultural, historic, heritage and tourism purposes.
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Returning operational Locks to the community!
2024 Update
Budget
Bylaws
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Legislation
The Willamette Falls Locks Authority is established as a public corporation and shall exercise and carry out all powers, rights and privileges that are expressly conferred upon the authority, are implied by law or are incident to such powers, rights and privileges.
The authority is an independent public corporation with a statewide mission and purposes and without territorial boundaries.
The authority is a governmental entity performing governmental functions and exercising governmental powers but, except as otherwise provided by law, is not a unit of local or municipal government or a state agency for purposes of state statutes or constitutional provisions.