Tag: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Hermiston’s Lamb Weston Plant Found to Have Polluted Groundwater
By Alex Baumhardt
Lamb Weston’s French fry production plant in Hermiston has been discharging too much nitrate-loaded water onto area farms, according to the Oregon...
Silage Fire Continues to Burn
The silage fire continues to burn at Columbia Basin Ag Management on Highway 207.
The company had scaled back extinguishment efforts but were continuing to...
Umatilla Fire District #1 Addresses Silage Fire in Southwest Hermiston
Umatilla County Fire District #1 released a statement on its Facebook page on Wednesday responding to a silage pile fire on the morning of...
DEQ Issues Air Quality Advisory For All of Oregon due to...
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Lane Regional Air Protection Agency and the Southwest Washington Clean Air Agency extended an air quality advisory for...
Hermiston Garbage Rates to Go Up in July
The Hermiston City Council approved a 7.81-percent rate increase for garbage customers during Monday night's council meeting.
The increase will cost residential customers with 90-gallon...
No Street Vacation Ordinance on Council's Agenda
At its last meeting in December, the Hermiston City Council held a public hearing on a proposed street vacation that drew a number of...
The Cost of Safe Drinking Water
DEQ Requiring Cities to Meet Additional Monitoring Standards
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will soon be issuing a permit for Hermiston’s stormwater management...
Council to Hear about DEQ Permitting Process
The Hermiston City Council will hear about the implications of a pending DEQ permit for the city’s stormwater management system at tonight’s meeting.
According to...
City Accepts $1 Million Bid for Pipeline Project
When the city of Hermiston sought bids for an outfall pipeline project, seven companies responded – with the highest bid being nearly twice as...
Council to Consider Final OK of District Subdivision
The Hermiston City Council will consider approving the final plat of a Hermiston School District-owned subdivision at tonight’s meeting.
The school district proposes to create...
No Curbside Recycling in Hermiston's Future
City Says Service Too Costly and Would Yield Marginal Results
Proponents of curbside recycling probably shouldn’t hold their breath waiting for Hermiston to adopt the...
Pendleton Man's Estate Fined $19,200 by DEQ
The estate of a Pendleton businessman who died in 2011 has been issued a fine of $19,200 for failing to clean up hazardous waste...
Both Sides of Coal Project Issue Make Their Case
One-hundred and fifty people signed up to speak in Hermiston at Tuesday’s hearing before the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on a coal export...
