Filters show promise in river cleanup
Spokane is testing advanced technology from a local company and others to address phosphorus reduction needs. The Spokesman Review reports.
Year: 2009
Spokane sewer rates rise to improve Spokane River water quality
Extra $5 a month will help keep pollutants out of river, boost capacity at wastewater plant. The Spokesman Review reports.
Shoring up access
It seems “insane” to Andy Dunau to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up the Spokane River without improving recreational access. The Spokesman Review reports.
Spokane Riverkeeper serves City of Spokane notice over PCB discharges to Spokane River
On behalf of the Spokane Riverkeeper, Gonzaga Law School’s Environmental Law Clinic today filed a sixty day “notice of violation” with the City of Spokane as a precedent to bringing a federal citizen enforcement lawsuit under the Clean Water Act. Read the Center for Justice news release.
Group says it will sue city over river PCBs
The Center for Justice filed a 60 day notice of intent to sue Spokane City over Spokane’s antiquated sewer system pumping polychlorinated byphenyls, or PCBs, into the Spokane River. The Spokesman Review reports.
Scientists poke around in the city’s plumbing to find sources of PCB pollution in Spokane River
Scientists have been running diagnostic tests on City of Spokane sewer and stormwater pipes to see where PCB and other contaminants of concern might be entering the Spokane River. The Inlander reports.
Ecology posts comments to Spokane River draft DO TMDL
Over 233 pages of comments were submitted to the Washington Department of Ecology draft dissolved oxygen TMDL for the Spokane River.
River plan draws detractors
The latest plan to limit algae-producing phosphorus in the Spokane River is drawing critics. The Spokesman Review reports.
Ecology completes clean-up at Flora Road site
The Washington Department of Ecology capped contaminated sediments at an informal access point at Flora Road.
Spokane River clean-up nets 8 plus tons of trash
Over 750 volunteers turned out for the seventh annual Spokane River Clean-up, held Saturday, September 26, to clean up the Spokane River Gorge and a stretch of the Spokane River in the University District. City of Spokane Solid Waste Management crews picked up bags of recyclables and garbage collected by volunteers weighing 16,447 pounds of trash, or 8+ tons, up from 12,020 picked up in 2008.