Palouse embarks on plan to meet waste water order

The city of Palouse is putting a plan together to comply with new waste water treatment requirements. Palouse has been granted three years to comply by a Department of Ecology order to lower the temperature of waste water discharge into the North Fork of the Palouse River.

Because the Palouse plant discharges into the Palouse River, the city has a permit which is administered through D.O.E. In July, when the permit came up for review, the temperature of the facility’s discharge water was deemed too high.

The D.O.E. has since directed the city to reduce the temperature by 2.5 degrees and cut th...