Why South Waterfront faces water damage risk
Built for South Waterfront’s high-rise reality — shared-riser risk that a single-family-home page wouldn’t address.
South Waterfront is one of Portland’s newest and most vertically dense districts.
The neighborhood is served by the OHSU aerial tram connecting to Marquam Hill.
Its riverfront location means lower-elevation drainage conditions than much of the city.
Shared vertical risers in high-rise towers mean a single supply-line failure can affect many floors at once, and riverfront low-elevation exposure plus high occupancy density mean water-damage consequences scale differently here than in single-family neighborhoods.