Palouse closer to wastewater plan submission

Representatives from the City of Palouse met with those from the Washington State Department of Ecology and Department of Commerce Feb. 27 in Spokane, for a follow-up meeting in the city's effort hit a coming deadline for an “approvable” wastewater plan.

The city will now move to turn it in by March 31, offering a strategy to lower the temperature of effluent into the Palouse River, and a second, longer-term requirement to eliminate all inorganic nitrates.

Both are directives from the Department of Ecology.

First, for a 2024 deadline, Palouse is set to add piping to send potable water to its w...