Port gets update on water proposal

At Thursday's port meeting, Properties and Development Manager Debbie Snell, updated the port commissioners on a joint water project between the port and the City of Colfax.

The water project between the city and the port is to add a port well at Port of Whitman Business Air Center to the City of Colfax water service area. The port well currently operates under a 5,000 gallon per day limit.

Snell said there was a meeting at the beginning of the month among the Department of Ecology, Department of Health and port and city staff to see if there were any major red flags or issues with operations,...