Palouse considers water tower on cemetery land

The Palouse city council has approved a $10,000 expenditure for a cultural survey in the interest of building a water tower at Greenwood Cemetery.

The vote Jan. 9 allows for the city to pay for the work on city-owned land at the highest point on the south hill. The survey will determine if any historical artifacts or remnants are beneath the surface of where the tower would go. It is part of an application Palouse filed in September for a USDA Rural Development grant.

Kramer’s Funeral Home of Palouse has confirmed there are no burials or plots sold on the land.

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