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that surrounds it, all in the

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. The name refers to Mount Tabor, Israel. It was named by Plympton Kelly, son of

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pioneer resident Clinton Kelly.

Neighborhood

Mt Tabor Park reservoir - Portland Oregon

The Mount Tabor neighborhood lies between SE 49th Ave. (SE 50th Ave. south of SE Hawthorne Blvd.) on the west and SE 76th Ave. on the east, and between E Burnside St. on the north and SE Division St. on the south. It is bordered by Sunnyside and

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on the west,

North Tabor North Tabor Neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, United States, is on the east side of the Willamette River on the northern slope of Mount Tabor. The Banfield Expressway ( Interstate 84) forms its northern boundary, separating it from the Hollywo ...

on the north and west, Montavilla on the north and east, and South Tabor on the south. Mount Tabor Park is the neighborhood's principal feature. The campus of

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(affiliated with the

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) is located just south of the park. The neighborhood also marks the eastern end of the

Hawthorne District Hawthorne is located at 43°27'22"N 123°4'51"W (43.4562300, -123.0809000). The Hawthorne District in Portland, Oregon, is an area of Southeast Portland on SE Hawthorne Blvd. that runs from 12th to 60th Avenues, with the primary core of busines ...

. The campus of Western Seminary is located on the western slope, overlooking downtown Portland. Before becoming part of Portland in 1905, Mount Tabor was a rural farming community dating back to the 1850s. It became a city-recognized neighborhood (encompassing a far smaller area than its historical boundaries) in 1974.

Reservoir controversy

The Mount Tabor reservoirs, along with those in Portland's Washington Park, have been the subject of a decade-long controversy surrounding lucrative engineering contracts to replace the historic open reservoirs with underground storage tanks. Concern has been raised about the possible relationship between City officials and the engineering firms receiving the no-bid reservoir decommissioning contracts; and about the role these parties may have played in lobbying for pro-underground-tank modifications (the " LT2" rule) to the

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. On June 15, 2011, a man was observed urinating in a nearly 8,000,000 gallon reservoir, prompting city officials to drain the water at a cost of around $36,000. Under LT2 several hundred of the country's historic open reservoirs were decommissioned. Following pressure from other open-reservoir cities, in 2011 the EPA softened its stance on the LT2 rule and allowed the country's remaining open reservoirs to halt burial plans; but despite public outcry Mount Tabor's open reservoirs remained slated for decommissioning. In August 2015, the Portland City Council passed a unanimous vote to decommission the three open reservoirs. After decommissioning, the three open reservoirs no longer supplied drinking water but generally remained filled with water. However, in 2021, structural concerns emerged related to Reservoir 6 and it has since remained drained.

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Neighborhood

Reservoir controversy

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