Center for Justice Comment Letter
Center for Justice comment letter re ability of Spokane County to achieve low effluent phosphorum concentrations.
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Water should be plentiful this summer
Parched mountain snowpacks in the Inland Northwest rebounded during March, meaning the current snowpack should keep local rivers flowing at 85 to 100 percent of normal during the summer months. The Spokesman Review reports.
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March 25th EPA stakeholder meeting notes released
Spokane Stakeholders, Attached are the questions and comments recorded during our Spokane TMDL meeting last Thursday. We went through each of these comments / questions during the meeting – –…
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Post Falls chamber DO comment letter
“Position: The Post Falls Chamber of Commerce recognizes that water is one of our nation’s, and the world’s, most important resources. It is important that federal and state governments enact…
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Public to comment on City of Spokane rules to regulate shoreline development
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) will hold a public hearing on March 24, 2009, to take public comment on a comprehensive update to the city of Spokane’s Shoreline Master Program. The shoreline program includes regulations specific to the Spokane River. Ecology news release reports.
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Phosphorus ban disliked, but working to protect Spokane River
A ban on high-phosphorus automatic-dishwasher detergents imposed last July 1 in Spokane County triggered a consumer backlash that lingers today, but appears in early data to be having the desired effect of reducing the amount of the nettlesome nutrient likely being released into the Spokane River. The Spokane Business Journal reports.
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February 27th EPA Stakeholder Meeting Notes
EPA released meeting notes from the February 27th stakeholder meeting on March 6th. Says Laurie Mann from EPA, “We are not currently planning to assemble a written response to the…
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Pend Oreille runoff eyed for Spokane flows
The Washington Department of Ecology will spend $250,000 to study whether Lake Pend Oreille could be tapped to provide water for better flows in the Spokane River. The Spokesman Review reports.
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Legal comment on Washington State dissolved oxygen criteria as applied to Lake Spokane
The Hayden Regional Sewer Board, the City of Coeur d’Alene, the City of Post Falls and Inland Empire Paper Company requested attorneys to create a legal analysis of Washington state’s…
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Comments to February 13, 2009 Core Model Workshop
The City of Spokane, Kaiser Aluminum, the City of Coeur d’Alene, Inland Empire Paper, Hayden Area Regional Sewer Board, Avista, Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District, City of Post Falls…