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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 ...
A man accused of killing three people early Tuesday in a “random” shooting at a convenience store in Yakima, Washington, is on the lam, police said.
Crime rates in the state of Washington grew rapidly to large levels from 1960 to 1980, however slowed in growth from 1980 onward. [1] Although the cause of this drop in crime growth from the 1980s cannot be directly determined, it was believed to have been a result from several law enforcement initiatives & policies implemented throughout the state of Washington and across the United States ...
Yakima 18,000 1997 Olympia Command Fire [1] Benton 5,500 Pow Wah Kee Fire [1] August 3 Asotin: 8,000 1996 Baird Springs Fire [1] Grant August 2 14,000 Cold Creek Fire [50] Benton / Yakima 57,000 1994 Copper Butte Fire [96] Ferry 10,473 Rat Creek / Hatchery Creek Fire Chelan 43,000 Tyee Creek Fire [98] [99] Chelan 135,000 37 1992 Castlerock Fire ...
Alamy In many ways, the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., is a microcosm of the United States. ... Safe and Dangerous Places in Washington. Jane Ellis. Updated September 22, 2016 at 5:13 PM ...
The Range 12 fire was started on July 30, 2016 in eastern Washington at the Yakima Training Center east of Yakima, Washington near Moxee, Washington. [1] [2] [3] It quickly grew to over 176,000 acres (71,000 ha) to cover parts of Yakima County and Benton County. [4]
The U.S. state of Washington, located in the Pacific Northwest, has several major mountain ranges that are traversed various passes. The state is divided by the Cascade Range, which have the highest passes, and is also home to the Olympic Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, and Blue Mountains.
Yakima (/ ˈ j æ k ɪ m ɑː / or / ˈ j æ k ɪ m ə /) is a city in, and the county seat of, Yakima County, Washington, United States, and the state's 11th most populous city.As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 96,968 and a metropolitan population of 256,728. [4]