Tag: Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area
State Offers More Free Water Testing for Umatilla, Morrow Counties
By Lynne Terry/Oregon Capital Chronicle
The water woes are not over for hundreds of households in eastern Oregon.
The Oregon Health Authority has asked about 1,600...
OHA Offering Free Testing for LUBGWMA Well Users
The Oregon Health Authority is encouraging people in the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area to get their well water retested for nitrates for...
Governor, EPA Administrator Meet with Local Leaders on Nitrate Issue
Gov. Tina Kotek and Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Administrator Casey Sixkiller met Wednesday, April 24, with local leaders and organizers to hear what...
Counties to Start Polluted Drinking Water Investigation from EPA Funds
The Morrow County Planning Department is ready to take the first official steps in a plan to address the drinking water crisis in the...
H2OEO Sets Sights on Clean Drinking Water Today, Solutions for...
The coalition of businesses and community organizations that formed in 2022 to provide drinking water resources to residential well users in Morrow and Umatilla...
Oregon DEQ Fines Lamb Weston $127,000 for Nitrogen Pollution
By Alex Baumhardt
A Lamb Weston plant in Hermiston allowed hundreds of tons of excess nitrogen to be spread on two farms, potentially adding pollution...
