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This is a list of Superfund sites in Washington State designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to ...
Morton is a city in Lewis County, Washington, United States. ... and administrative and waste management services, 2.2% worked in other services, 1.6% worked in ...
On Wednesday, the Washington Department of Ecology celebrated removal of more than 35,000 drums of industrial waste from the Pasco Sanitary Landfill Superfund site — a significant milestone in ...
Dragline at the Centralia coal mine. Centralia Coal Mine was an open-pit coal mine, owned by the Canadian-based TransAlta Corporation.The mine shut down in 2006. [1] Also referred to as the TransAlta Centralia Mining (TCM) operation, the coal mine was located approximately 5 miles (8 km) northeast of the city of Centralia, in Lewis County, in the US state of Washington.
Lewis County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 82,149. [1] The county seat is Chehalis, [2] and its largest city is Centralia. Lewis County comprises the Centralia, WA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Seattle-Tacoma, WA Combined Statistical Area.
Mineral is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lewis County, Washington, on State Route 7 near the Pierce/Lewis county line. Mineral originally began as a logging camp and mining town. Prospectors searching the area for gold instead found coal and arsenic. By the early 1920s, the mines closed and a devastating fire ...
Shoshone County, Idaho County, and Nez Perce County were established in Washington Territory in 1861, and Boise County in 1863, until they split off into the Idaho Territory in March 1863, leaving the current borders of Washington. [51] Ferguson County, named for Washington legislator James L. Ferguson, was established on January 23, 1863, from ...
McCormick is an unincorporated community off Washington State Route 6 in Lewis County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The town is west of Pe Ell and 1.8 miles east of the extinct town of Walville, Washington and the Pacific County line. [1] The Willapa Hills Trail bisects the area.