Palouse reverts to earlier plan on wastewater plant

Disbanded plans are back on in Palouse as another round of discussions on the city’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System have led them back to where they were earlier this year.

The change comes after a meeting Nov. 6 with Washington Department of Ecology (DOE) representatives on the subject of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), which may lead to further mandates for the Palouse wastewater treatment plant and its discharge into the Palouse River.

The PCB question is new to Palouse, which has been working the past two years on a requirement to reduce the temperature of discharge by 2....