Palouse: Brownsfield site carries tax debt

Over 20 years, a now-defunct fertilizer company in Palouse has racked up a $22,811 legacy owed on back-taxes for a plot of land polluted by that company.

That plot of land is the brownsfield site, which the city of Palouse and the department of ecology are now working to clean up and restore into a usable city entity.

A consulting firm hired by the city on a grant from the DOE has held a series of community meetings over the past few months to hear citizen input on the eventual use of the site.

The city of Palouse is currently working to buy the land from its current alleged owner, John Sell....