Willamette Falls, Locks & Paper Mill

View of the four lock system from the downstream end - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Willamette Falls is on the Willamette River:

The Willamette River is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is 187 miles long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward between the Oregon Coast Range and the Cascade Range, the river and its tributaries form the Willamette Valley, a basin that contains two-thirds of Oregon's population, including the state capital, Salem, and the state's largest city, Portland, which surrounds the Willamette's mouth at the Columbia.

Willamette Falls is located at the southern end of the Portland metropolitan area.

Wikipedia gives us some background:

The Willamette Falls Locks are a lock system on the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 1873 and closed since 2011, they allowed boat traffic on the Willamette to navigate beyond Willamette Falls and the T.W. Sullivan Dam.

Business Tribune tells us The Corps of Engineers are planning on making some 'repairs' to the locks before transferring ownership to the newly constituted Willamette Falls Locks Authority.

Willamette Falls (top left) and Locks (along the right hand side)

The place has been a fixture of the landscape and a fixture in my mind, but not much happens there, it just sits there, letting all that water just flow on by.

Welcome to Willamette Falls Paper
Willamette Falls Paper Company

The big industrial looking place on the island between the locks and river proper is a paper mill. It was closed several years ago, but then reopened a few years later. Now they make paper from pulp that comes from a pulp mill up in Washington state. That pulp is made from wheat straw. The pulp is shipped in bales and they add water before they feed it into the paper making machines. At full capacity, the mill could produce 260,000 tons of paper per year. To haul that much pulp with trucks they would need a bunch, like 50 trucks a day. There is a rail line, but it is on the other side of the river. 

Columbia Pulp plant in Lyons Ferry near Starbuck

The pulp plant is between a rail line and the Snake River, so their product could be shipped by truck, rail or barge. However, I don't see any docking facilities at the Willamette Paper Plant.