EMB ERJ 170/175 ER/LR
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (mon) 17
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict Airborne Conflict; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Separated Traffic
Airspace Structure; Procedure
Aircraft X; an ERJ-175; [was] climbing off of PDX via WHAMY departure. Clear him to WHAMY while pulling up the Minimum Separation between the ERJ-175 and a primary only target; northbound 20 miles southeast of PDX. Minimum Separation shows close; so I vector [the] ERJ-175 south around the primary target. As they get close; the primary turns northwest into the ERJ-175. They passed about 1 mile apart. While that was going on Aircraft Y; a B737; checked in climbing on the WHAMY departure. I issued him the traffic and took him north around the primary. While all that was going on; Aircraft Z; a B737 was descending on the TMBRS arrival near FLOWR. There was another primary only target 5 miles north of FLOWR headed southwest. As Aircraft Z made the turn at FLOWR I gave him vectors off the arrival for the primary traffic. PDX has class C airspace and safety would benefit greatly if we had class B or at least a mode C veil.
A TRACON Controller reported that aircraft are routinely in conflict; at both arrivals and departures; from and to PDX and mentioned the associated Class C would benefit tremendously by either an upgrade to Class B; or a Mode C veil.