Grant funds help improve water quality

PALOUSE — The Washington State Department of Ecology has granted and loaned millions of dollars to local water quality improvement projects.

The recent round of loans includes over $8 million in lending to the City of Palouse for sewer plant improvements.

The agency also allocated a $1 million in grants to the Palouse Conservation District to improve the water quality in Rose Creek, north of Pullman.

“We have a number of water quality projects. A number of them are on Rose Creek. A group of people had gotten together to improve water quality and work with private land owners and work on these...