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EPA to exam minorities drinking Yakima Valley well water
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 5 days ago
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The Yakima Valley has been selected as one of 10 communities nationwide for a special project to reduce health risks faced by minorities drinking contaminated water from private wells...Environmental Protection Agency will get $100,000 for a pilot project...
Tags: Yakima Valley, EPA, wells water, Kansas City, Yakima Herald-Republic, environmental justice, minority drinking, Seattle, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Yakima River, Yakima County Washington, Yakima Washington, Water pollution, Disaster Accident, Environment
Water supply near normal for irrigators
Yakima :: WA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The Bureau of Reclamation says irrigators in central Washington's Yakima Valley should expect a near normal water supply this summer. That's according to their July 2009 forecast based on stream flows, snowpack and precipitation. As of July 1, reservoirs...
Tags: water supply, Yakima River, Yakima Valley
Yakima lawmaker Mary Skinner dies
Yakima :: WA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The first Latino lawmaker from the Yakima Valley, Mary Skinner, died Thursday morning...The state House of Representatives announced Skinner's death in a news release...Skinner represented the 14th District in the House for 14 years, championing bills...
Tags: Mary Skinner, skinner died, Yakima Valley, House Republican Caucus, lawmaker mary
Feds pull plug on massive reservoir for Yakima Valley
Yakima :: WA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Bureau of Reclamation says a massive reservoir proposed to improve water supplies in Central Washington's drought-prone Yakima Valley would be too costly, a decision that potentially ends years of studies that have already cost $18 million...Bureau of...
Tags: Yakima Valley, massive reservoir
Valley treasure under siege
Yakima :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Yakima Valley is blessed with a strikingly rich palette of cultural heritage, a legacy of rock art left as many as 1,000 years ago...Truth is, rock art here is deteriorating -- either by the elements or, worse, by the hand of vandals.
Tags: Yakima Valley
Task force aims at Pierce, King car thieves
Yakima :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A police task force involving 16 agencies in south King and north Pierce counties is going after chronic car thieves who are responsible for a large number of thefts. The task force announced Wednesday by the King County prosecutor was created with a...
Tags: task force, cars thieves, Yakima County Sheriff's Office, Yakima Valley, South King-North Pierce, chronic cars
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