Palouse directs water effort for North Palouse River

The City of Palouse has directed its wastewater engineering consultant to focus on a certain area in its quest to solve a state Department of Ecology decree due in December.

Tasked with reducing the temperature of its discharge into the North Palouse River by 2.5 degrees – and eliminating inorganic nitrates – the city hired Varela & Associates from Spokane. On May 8, the city council directed them to focus their efforts on the option of building a seasonal storage tank and winter discharge on 15 acres of city property to use during low-river flow periods.

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