Engineers renew alarm over Oregon’s crumbling bridges, water lines and more

SALEM — Oregon’s pipes, roads, bridges and other structures for moving around the state and to get power and water need significant work, civil engineers said Wednesday.

Much of Oregon’s infrastructure is deteriorating with age, and the state must do more to prepare for a potentially major earthquake, according to the Oregon chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

A group of 28 experts from the society pored over data on ten types of…