River City Environmental Inc

About River City Environmental Inc

Before the fog off the Columbia has burned back from the waterfront trail, the crew from River City Environmental is already working the low ground near the Interstate Bridge, where the first ice of a river-valley freeze always finds the pavement first. Vancouver sits low against the water, and when a cold east wind drops down through the Gorge, the river sends up its own damp chill that glazes ramps and loading docks long before the neighborhoods up the hill notice a thing. The company works that seam between river and street, plowing and treating the low-lying routes that keep downtown moving before the sun has cleared the ridge to the east. There is a plain satisfaction in a clean approach to a warehouse dock at six in the morning, in salt laid down before the first truck needs it. It is unglamorous work, tied to a river that rarely freezes but often tries, and River City Environmental treats every one of those mornings as worth doing right.