Palouse Brownfield site enters 're-use' phase

Palouse Mayor Michael Echanove last Tuesday reported to city council members that the cleanup of the city’s Brownfield site was close to being finished and the city should go “full steam ahead” to get the site back in use.

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“Right now we’re on the very edge of the cleanup,” he said

Discussion followed about what the Department of Ecology (DOE) cleanup site could become, whether it might bring new property taxes, jobs or another benefit to Palouse.

Mayor Echanove indicated that the $786,000 state DOE and federal Environmental Protection Agency investment in the...