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Public Notification of Corps of Engineers Amazon Creek Wetlands Study--2-2-2 <br /> square miles of drainage area. Amazon Creek originates in the steep wooded hillsides <br /> surrounding the city of Eugene on the east and south. The creek flows about 24 miles <br /> through residential, commercial and industrial sections of Eugene and across the fertile <br /> Willamette Valley, joining the Long Tom River near Junction City. <br /> About 7.5 miles above its mouth, Amazon Creek widens and forms Clear Lake, a <br /> narrow body of water about 1 mile long. Amazon Creek is separated from Fern Ridge <br /> Lake and the Long Tom River by a low ridge from its mouth to a point approximately <br /> 10 to 12 miles upstream. Ridge Lake is a Corps of Engineers multi-purpose flood <br /> control project constructed in 1941. <br /> In 1959, the Corps completed major channel works along Amazon Creek <br /> consisting of 5.4 miles of concrete rectilinear and earth trapezoidal channel <br /> - improvements through Eugene, a 2.5-mile-long improved earth trapezoidal channel from <br /> Eugene to a diversion structure. Two-thirds of Amazon Creek flows are diverted into a <br /> 3.8-mile-long canal from the diversion structure, emptying into Fern Ridge Lake. Fern <br /> For more information about the Amazon Creek Wetlands Study, call Matt Rea, of <br /> the Corps of Engineers' Regulatory and Environmental Resource Branch, at (503) 326- <br /> 6095. Written comments should be mailed to: <br /> District Engineer <br /> U.S. Army Engineer District, Portland <br /> • ATTN: CENPP-PE-RPM <br /> P.O. Box 2946 <br /> Portland, Oregon 97208-2946 <br /> -30- <br />