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Soil, surface water and groundwater across most of the Tacoma Tar Pits site is contaminated by metals, PAHs, PCBs, and VOCs including benzene, from a former coal gasification plant and recycling operations. Ship building, oil refining, chemical manufacture and storage and other industrial activity has contaminated the land and sediments of the ...
Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility is the largest wastewater treatment plant for Spokane, capable of handling up to 150 million gallons a day. During low flow periods, the outflow of the plant comprises up to 20% of the Spokane River's water. [ 1 ]
The Spokane Valley–Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer is one of the fastest and most productive aquifers in the country. The volume of the aquifer is about ten trillion gallons (38 trillion liters) of water. [2] It supplies water to over 500,000 people in the Spokane region, producing an average of 146 million gallons of water each day.
Oct. 30—A federal agency has decided to take the Spokane Tribe of Indians' lead in addressing cancer-causing pollutants in the Spokane and Little Spokane rivers. On Tuesday, the Environmental ...
Aug. 14—Low flows along the Spokane River have triggered stricter watering rules. The river is flowing at less than 1,000 cubic feet per second, which is the lowest it has been since last August.
Marshall Creek is a stream flowing over 10 miles through Spokane County, Washington from east of the city of Cheney northwest through the channeled scablands and the community of Marshall before ultimately joining Latah Creek in the Latah/Hangman neighborhood of Spokane.
The city of Spokane surrounds the CDP on three sides: the east, south and west. [5] The city's street grid continues into Town and Country uninterrupted in the east, though it breaks down in the west along the bluff leading up to Five Mile Prairie. The bulk of the CDP lies on flat ground like the surrounding north side of Spokane.
Hall presented earlier this month, showing that about 70% of the city’s drug offenses occur within SPD’s downtown precinct boundaries, which is only about 2% of Spokane. Meanwhile, alcohol ...