Towns will shut down pumps for PBAC aquifer check

The six major water users in the Palouse basin will shut down their pumps, likely over the week of Thanksgiving, while University of Idaho researchers take a baseline sampling of groundwater levels in the Grande Ronde aquifer.

The shutdown, expected to be in the range of 48 hours, is being sponsored by the Palouse Basin Aquifer Committee with a University of Idaho team working on the project.

The pump shut-down will include Colfax, Palouse, Moscow, Pullman, Washington State University and the University of Idaho.

Prior to the shut-down, pumps will fill up each entity’s reservoirs to have enoug...