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Dirty Martinis for Clean Water

Posted on September 27th, 2010

This Friday, October 1st, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. The Spokane Riverkeeper reports.

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Join Spokane River cleanup of Great Gorge and U District on Saturday, September 25th

Posted on September 23rd, 2010

The 8th Annual Spokane River Clean-Up - set for Saturday, September 25, from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm. Find out more.

Tags: Friends of the Falls
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Lawsuit over river discharges could be boon for wetland

Posted on August 25th, 2010

A lawsuit over river discharges threatens the January 2012 startup of a new Spokane County sewage treatment plant, so officials are working on a backup. Plan B, restoration of a wetland with treated wastewater, requires county officials to exercise many of the land-use tools in their kit – and one that doesn’t yet exist. The Spokesman Review reports.

Tags: Saltese Flats, Spokane County
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Spokane River Cleanup Saturday, April 24th

Posted on April 22nd, 2010

Enterprising recreation students from the University of Idaho will be leading a cleanup effort from Harvard Road (Put-in) to Mirabeau Park (Take-out). Saturday, April 24th, 10:00 am.

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County braces for appeals to river water quality plan

Posted on March 7th, 2010

If Ecology's DO TMDL plan for reducing algae-feeding pollution in the Spokane River is challenged, Spokane County's treatment plant may not be allowed to discharge effluent into the Spokane River. That could trigger a construction moratorium or increased cost to discharge the water elsewhere. The Spokesman Review reports.

Tags: Inland Empire Paper, Spokane County, Washington Department of Ecology
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Spokane Riverkeeper serves City of Spokane notice over PCB discharges to Spokane River

Posted on December 3rd, 2009

On behalf of the Spokane Riverkeeper, Gonzaga Law School’s Environmental Law Clinic today filed a sixty day “notice of violation” with the City of Spokane as a precedent to bringing a federal citizen enforcement lawsuit under the Clean Water Act. Read the Center for Justice news release.

Tags: Center for Justice, City of Spokane, Gonzaga Law School Environmental Law Clinic
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Group says it will sue city over river PCBs

Posted on December 3rd, 2009

The Center for Justice filed a 60 day notice of intent to sue Spokane City over Spokane’s antiquated sewer system pumping polychlorinated byphenyls, or PCBs, into the Spokane River. The Spokesman Review reports.

Tags: Center for Justice, City of Spokane, Riverkeeper
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Scientists poke around in the city’s plumbing to find sources of PCB pollution in Spokane River

Posted on November 24th, 2009

Scientists have been running diagnostic tests on City of Spokane sewer and stormwater pipes to see where PCB and other contaminants of concern might be entering the Spokane River. The Inlander reports.

Tags: City of Spokane, Washington Department of Ecology
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