Whitman cattleman fined again for S. Fork of Palouse pollution

Washington State Department of Ecology has fined Pullman area cattle producer Marcus Jacobson $24,000 for continuing to discharge polluted water from his feedlot into a tributary of the South Fork Palouse River in violation of a 2010 order, according to a new release from Jani Gilbert of the DOE.

Jacobson was fined $4,000 in September of 2010 and ordered to stop polluting the water and to obtain a permit as a Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). The permit requires documentation that actions have been taken to permanently prevent further releases of pollution.

Jacobson paid the $4,000 fin...