Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Bridgeport, WA

Bridgeport is a city in Douglas County, Washington, on the Columbia River, and it is part of the Wenatchee–East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The area was settled in the late 19th century under the name Westfield, and some of its earliest settlers were Chinese miners extracting gold from the banks of the Columbia River.

Developers purchased the town in 1892 and renamed it Bridgeport after their hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The city of Bridgeport was officially incorporated on March 21, 1910.

The 2020 census counted 2,141 people and 646 households in Bridgeport; the population had been 2,409 in 2010, and Hispanic or Latino residents made up 81.4 percent of the 2020 population, with a median age of 30.3 years.

Bridgeport's population more than doubled to 802 by 1950 during construction of the great Columbia River dams, the biggest economic boom in the city's history.

Chief Joseph Dam stands about 1.5 miles upstream from Bridgeport: it was authorized in 1946 as Foster Creek Dam, renamed in 1948 for Nez Perce Chief Joseph, and built beginning in 1949, reaching 27 generating units by 1979.

Chief Joseph Dam is the second-largest hydropower-producing dam in the United States and the largest operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and its reservoir, Rufus Woods Lake, extends 51 miles upstream; the dam has no fish ladders and blocks salmon migration to the upper Columbia.

Bridgeport has over 1.5 miles of Columbia River waterfront within its city limits, and 622-acre Bridgeport State Park sits on the north shore of Rufus Woods Lake next to the dam.

Bridgeport recorded a temperature of 115 °F on June 29, 2021, during the Pacific Northwest heat wave; it had previously shared Washington's June temperature record at 113 °F, set in 2015.