The County is proposing to purchase three water rights as well as expand the types of uses the bank will serve and expand the geographic area of the bank.
The $5 million project includes a $2.2 grant from the state Department of Ecology to improve roadside gutters and curbs and upgrade stormwater drainage.
The state Department of Ecology is trying to ensure new housing is cleaned up before people live there, and assist people who already live on old orchards.
The Wenatchee Valley continues to experience heavy smoke well into October.
Air Quality is reaching the Unhealthy to Hazardous level daily.
Susan Woodard with the Washington Department of Ecology says the current pattern is highly unusual, but not completely unprecedented in Wenatchee.
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The Washington State Department of Ecology is asking residents that if they don't have to burn, to not do it.
Communications Manager Andrew Wineke says now is not a great time.
"First responders are stretched thin and even if you burn responsibly and you control the fire, there could be a concerned neighbor that calls them out
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Craft3, a non-bank community lender and Washington Department of Ecology has expanded funding available for clean water loans to Okanogan County as of September 2019. These affordable Clean Water Loans are to alleviate the expensive cost of repairing or replacing failed septic systems...