Oregon State University researchers and the nonprofit Human Access Project have released an updated design for a years-in-the-making plan they say could once and for all curb the toxic algal blooms in the Ross Island lagoon that drift into the broader Willamette River each summer. But the project faces stiff odds of launching even though the contamination has churned for well over a decade and is worsening with drier springs, hotter summers and declining snowpacks. Read more at the link in our bio. #willametteriver