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DEQ Charges Japanese Boat at Marubeni-Columbia Grain with Illegal Discharge into Willamette River by Staff Longshore Shipping News, August 1, 2014

DEQ alleges the ship La Bamba recently discharged nearly 300,000 gallons of ballast into the Willamette.

Japanese merchant ship "La Bamba" was fined $15,600 by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for discharging its ballast water illegally into the Willamette River.

The Toyko-based ship, owned by Marine Ace Co. Ltd., was docked in Portland on May 19, berthed at the Columbia Grain Facility Terminal at 15550 N. Lombard St., when the discharge occurred, according to DEQ.

Ballast discharges can bring invasive marine or freshwater organisms into Oregon waters, and thus are considered environmental hazards.

In a news release, the agency charged that the vessel owner "attempted to mask from DEQ the discharge of prohibited ballast water."

There is more land planted to wheat in the world than any other crop.
It provides 20 percent of the world's caloric consumption.

Wheat Facts
by Washington Grain Commission, 2015 / 2016

Pacific Northwest All Wheat Production

Washinton	111.5 million bushels	3.3 million tons
Idaho	87.1 million bushels	2.6 million tons
Oregon	39.2 million bushels	1.2 million tons
Total	237.8 million bushels	7.1 million tons