River City Environmental

★★☆☆☆ 2.4 / 5 (56)
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: 5410 NE 109th Ave, Portland, OR 97220
: (503) 252-6144
: https://rivercityusa.com

Company Overview

Since 1995, River City Environmental has offered environmental and emergency services throughout the Detroit Lake area, including stormwater solutions, septic services, emergency spills, pipe repair, and water transport services. If you need assistance with a service you don’t see, call us at (503) 208-6955. Our skilled service team is ready to help you around the clock, 365 days a year.

Since 1995, River City Environmental has been serving commercial, industrial, and residential clients with a wide array of environmental services. As the largest environmental services provider in the Northwest, we take pride in offering experienced personnel and complete environmental, sewer, septic, and stormwater management solutions. Based in Portland, our company has expanded from Oregon and Washington to serve the entire Northwest.

Steve began his journey in the waste management industry as a young boy and established his environmental services company over 25 years ago. As a native of Portland, Steve loves to fish with his wife and kids whenever he can.

Business Services

  • Drain repair
  • Faucet repair
  • Plumbing inspection
  • Plumbing installation or replacement
  • Plumbing repair
  • Sewer installation
  • Sewer repair
  • Sink repair
  • Snow removal
  • Toilet repair
  • Water pipe repair

Business Location & Hours



Mon:Open 24 hours
Tue:Open 24 hours
Wed:Open 24 hours
Thu:Open 24 hours
Fri:Open 24 hours
Sat:Open 24 hours
Sun:Open 24 hours

Recommended Customer Reviews

Gaby C.
★☆☆☆☆

Terrible job, left drain without filter, they left all the trash there and I called asking them if they were going to come back to clean it up and he said it was our trash and just rinse off the filter and put it back on ourselves. a day after they did the ""job"" drain was floated again.

Deena B.
★★★★★

My landlord and I have had horrible experiences with plumbers- she connected with River City and booked an appointment. Jesse was able to diagnose the problem and fix it - pretty dang fast. My landlord wants folks to know that he was nice and polite. He also explained things so she could understand. Price was great too!

Will call them again- for sure.

River L.
★☆☆☆☆

Complete scam. When I questioned the manager why the material charge was so high, he told me that they purchased an amount of piping that was more than twice as much as was needed. I was never compensated for this ""extra' material. They will charge you $100 as a ""fuel surcharge"" even if they are a few minutes from your property. They will also charge you for the time to get materials - in my experience it took over an hour and a half. I checked the pricing on the materials and they upcharge 40%. Chaz, the manager, will not take your calls once he knows you are a disgruntled customer. They price gouge and are extremely dishonest. Avoid.

Rick S.
★☆☆☆☆

I'm a contractor, and I thought I'd try using River City for a portable toilet at a job site. There wasn't one aspect of the whole experience with this company that wasn't a major hassle. The quoted price wasn't even close to the final cost. The toilet was delivered damaged and unable to be secured. A replacement took weeks and since the original couldn't be secured, it was used and abused by people who had access to it 24 hours a day. They were unresponsive by email and by phone. I keep getting invoiced for very strange, small amounts 5 months after I paid the final invoice and they picked up their unit. To their credit, they eventually fixed one invoicing mistake, but I'm still trying to close the book with them...today I got a bill for 2 dollars and change.

I don't think I've ever left a one-star review, but I truly would avoid dealing with this company if you have other options. Luckily a porta-potty is a relatively small transaction, so I'm not out much. Maybe they are more responsive to larger customers, but I see a lot of red flags and will not be using them again.

Kate S.
★☆☆☆☆

River City needs to provide full disclosure in their estimates. If they are going to charge time from door to door, they would be better advised to state a two hour minimum. According to them, it took two men two hours to dig a two foot hole and discover there was no problem. They claimed transportation time was part of the reason for the excessive cost even when we live in their same zip code. They also failed to include fuel charges and environmental fees in their estimate, so I ended up paying double what I had expected. I will be taking my business to their competitors and hope that everyone who reads this can find a company with better business practices.

Elisabeth R.
★★★★★

We use River City for a number of commercial properties we manage in and around Portland. River City has been professional, experienced, solution focused and communicative. They are also very cognizant of the building's tenants and will work around schedules as to not be disruptive. They have handled everything from basic plumbing, new installs, storm line jetting, jetting large clogs and scoping and mapping sewer lines. Overall, they are great to work with and highly recommend.

Alina S.
★★★★★

Scheduled striping with River City, the crew was very professional very quick and organized they for sure know what they are doing . Did an amazing job at my property I really recommend them

Dori G.
★☆☆☆☆

Called the River City to pump the black water and gray water out of my moms RV which is at the bottom of my driveway. The driver had trouble finding my driveway, and made a huge hole in my driveway spinning his wheels instead of trying to get up the driveway another way. Once they got to the RV it took them a long time to pump it out. The technician acted like he didn't know where to hook up the hose. Come to find out after they left the black water and gray water tanks in the RV are still half full. I would not recommend this company. At all.

Naomi W.
★★☆☆☆

We live near PSU and they are conducting some work so the school can replace a roof on the Engineering building. They set up their vacuum across the sidewalk from a resident and directed their noise out into Lovejoy Fountain park which is all stone, no surface to absorb the sound. Meanwhile they could have done this with their truck on 4th Street. They didn't notify anyone till the day before and when asked about it - they could give a crap they adversely impacted 200+ residents with their unprofessional behavior.

The guy ""minding"" the vacuum is wearing ear plugs. Could have been nice for the company to give out ear plugs to all the residents they were assaulting auditorially for a week.

Meagan M.
★☆☆☆☆

After an emergency plumbing issue on New Years Day (forced to shut off water to the entire house) and calling many plumbers to no avail, River City said they could get me in the next morning around 9am as the second job of the day following a 7:30am call. They quoted me $445/hour with a 2-hour minimum, which was expensive but seemed necessary to get the issue fixed urgently. I sat around all day waiting for them to arrive or call/text me, and they just simply never showed up. I called for an update midday and was told I was still next in the queue, and then never heard from them again. A day later I called to remove my name from the queue in the event I was still on their list (received service elsewhere) and they seemed neither surprised nor apologetic. Spare yourself the disrespect.

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