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Cosmo Specialty Fibers

This is a sulfite pulp mill. With around 200 employees, the mill makes about 550 tons of dissolving pulp (acetate, viscose, and ether grades) each day. It treats its wastewater, and sends it to Grays ...
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Landowners fined for illegally pumping 500 million gallons from Odessa aquifer

MOSES LAKE – Landowners near Moses Lake have been fined for illegally pumping more than 500 million gallons of groundwater from the declining Odessa aquifer. In June, the Washington Department of ...
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Property owners fined $204,000 for damaging Deschutes River shoreline

Two Thurston County property owners were fined $204,000 by the Washington Department of Ecology for unpermitted shoreline development along the Deschutes River near Yelm. Chuck and Austin Rogers ...
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Youth litter crews take to the roads to pick up trash

As you hit the road this week, give us a brake. The Ecology Youth Corps’ teenage litter crews began picking up Washington roads and highways today and will continue working through August. Ecology ...
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New steps to improve groundwater management in the Pasco Basin

A new legal designation establishes the boundaries for a future groundwater co-management agreement in the Pasco Basin. Water in eastern Washington is a scarce resource, and tracking groundwater ...
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Damage to wetlands in Grant County results in $267,540 fine

Left photo: Alkali wetland located on King Ranch land in July 2019. (Image from Google Earth) Right photo: Alkali wetland located on King Ranch land in April 2021 with evidence of heavy equipment ...
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Environmental penalties issued for the third quarter of 2023

The Washington Department of Ecology issued $138,800 in penalties of $1,000 or more from July 1 – Sept. 30, 2023. A detailed list of the violations and resulting penalties is in the table below.
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Seattle and King County fined for sewer overflow violations

The Washington Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are jointly issuing fines to Seattle and King County for violating conditions of their federal consent decrees ...
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Updates on cleanup sites in your inbox

Since we started tracking cleanup site data, we’ve listed over 14,000 contaminated or formerly contaminated sites. While over half of them have been cleaned up, that still leaves more than 6,400 ...
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$40 million available for streamflow restoration projects

A project to return Boise Creek at the Enumclaw Golf Course to its historic natural channel and dedicate a water right to improve instream flow is underway thanks to Ecology's streamflow restoration ...
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Pilot project takes root with landowners along Hangman Creek

350 acres of new streamside vegetation is improving water quality The Hangman Creek watershed is changing, and we don’t mean changing from summer to fall. After five years and $9 million in state ...
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Ecology awards $9.6 million for landfill methane reduction

A new competitive grant program from the Washington Department of Ecology will fund projects at 13 landfills across the state to better measure and contain methane before it escapes into the ...