Why Cully faces water damage risk
Cully’s incrementally-extended infrastructure is a real, checkable detail — most of central Portland was built out in one wave.
Cully was annexed into Portland later than many of the city’s core neighborhoods.
The area was historically semi-rural before urban infill development.
Infrastructure was incrementally extended rather than built out in a single wave.
A later municipal utility connection with mixed well-to-city-utility conversion history, incrementally-extended infrastructure varying block to block, and later infill tying into an unevenly-upgraded grid all mean Cully carries genuinely different — and higher — water-damage risk than more central neighborhoods.