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The Willamette valley is home to 70% of Oregon's population, with the aquifer supplying water for agricultural, domestic, and industrial purposes. Reported in 2005, the total water use from the aquifer was 1.6 hm 3 (420 million gallons) per day, with 58% going to irrigation, 24% to public supply, and 18% to industrial use. [3]
Albany (/ ˈ æ l b ə n i / AL-bə-nee) is the county seat of Linn County, [11] Oregon, and is the 11th most populous city in the state. [12] Albany is located in the Willamette Valley at the confluence of the Calapooia River and the Willamette River in both Linn and Benton counties, just east of Corvallis and south of Salem.
Linn County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2023 census population estimates, the population was 131,496. [1] The county seat is Albany. [2] The county is named in the honor of Lewis F. Linn, [3] a U.S. Senator from Missouri who advocated the American settlement of the Oregon Country.
Oregon's Enterprise Information Services, the agency charged with the maintenance and security of the state's technology systems, are reviewing recommendations from the U.S. Environmental ...
The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the US EPA to set standards for drinking water quality in public water systems (entities that provide water for human consumption to at least 25 people for at least 60 days a year). [3] Enforcement of the standards is mostly carried out by state health agencies. [4]
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The multiyear drought that has gripped Oregon is at its lowest point since October 2019. As a whole, Oregon's snowpack is 104% of normal while precipitation is 105% of normal.
A map of superfund sites in Oregon. This is a list of federal Superfund sites on the National Priorities List (NPL) in Oregon designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. There are other federal Superfund sites in Oregon not on the NPL, which are shorter-term, cleanup sites.