What's New?
What is the CRC?
Fish News
Public Resources
Can we help you?
Contact the CRC
Watershed Mangement
Dairy Issues
Fertilizer Concerns
Contamination
General Water Quality
Community Focused
Permits & Checklists
Coast-Estuary Concerns
Coastal Erosion Concerns
Storm and Flood News
Lewis County Issues
Grays Harbor County Issues
Thurston County Issues
Water Quality Plan
Water Quality Issues
Rivers of the Chehalis
Newsletters
W.S.U. Extension
Visit FOGH
Grays Harbor Model Watershed
Water Quality Monitoring, a plan
How to Shade the Chehalis
American Rivers
Year of the Ocean
NonPoint Source Pollution
Seasons of the Chehalis
The Impaired Waterbodies
Any value to water?
Glossary of Terms
What's A Basin?
Where's the Basin?
The Chehalis Nation
What's the Law?
Thurston County
Lewis County
Grays Harbor County
Weather-flood warnings
STORMWEB
Centralia gage
USGS River Information
Corp of Engineers Basin Index
Satsop gage
The Chronicle
Aberdeen Daily World
The Olympian |
Local Dairy Topics Which Are Controversial
Be sure to visit Coastal and Estuary Concerns.
-
For more information see:
Lewis County issues page or the Grays Harbor County Issues page or the
Thurston County Issues page
for more information on issues covered on this Hot Topic page.
Learn about 700,000 sites which handle dangerous chemicals at this award winning EPA site
-
Dairy Related
 Apr. 30, 2004 The Chronicle reports on a cattle waste dumping situation which involves a slaughter facility in the upper Chehalis.
- Jan. 18, 2004 The Chronicle reports that Lewis County is involved in a fierce debate over the value of farm lands. Meanwhile there is ever growing concern about the loss of water quality.
- Aug. 16, 2002 WaDOE reports of 630 dairies in Washington, 620 met the July 1 deadline to submit pollution management plans.
- Apr. 07, 2002 WaDOE has a great publication based on efforts in Thurston County: Effects of Land Application of Dairy Manure and Wastewater on Groundwater Quality: Pre- and Post-Animal Waste Holding Pond Monitoring
- Oct. 30, 2001 5 Washington dairies attract special attention and a significant award in support of clean water.
- Jun. 22, 2001 Dairy manure discharge to Chehalis river results in $34,000 fine according to this article in The Chronicle.
- Jan. 29, 2001 Back in 1996 illness and flood recovery slowed down information added to this website. Here is the first edition of "Yesterday's News, Today". More will be added over time.
- Jan. 14, 2001 The Aberdeen Daily World reports that Chehalis farmers have cut watershed pollution.
- Jan. 11, 2001 WaDOE announced a few dairies received fines for failure to register as required by law.
- Jan. 09, 2001 Inspections of 42 livestock farms in Lewis, Thurston and southeast Grays Harbor counties found that most are managing their operations in an environmentally responsible manner.
- Dec. 06, 2000 The Olympian reports that Rochester area dairy is seeking approval for new dairy waste tank.
- Nov. 29, 2000 WaDOE adopts revised shoreline guidelines today.
- Nov. 02, 2000 WaDOE has announced penalties for various types of violations. Here is a complete list. Most have a relationship to water quality.
- Nov. 02, 2000 What's new in ag inspections, tree planting, education and what happened to Mike Kelly? The October issue of Drops of Water is online with the answers.
- Oct. 12, 2000 An award to a dairy/chicken farm and clean ground water are just a part of a Groundwater Symposium October 16-18th.
- Oct. 01, 2000 Livestock inspections in the upper Chehalis will happen in the next few weeks according to this news sotry in the The Capital Press .
- Sep. 30, 2000 The Aberdeen Daily World reports that WaDOE is beginning inspections of livestock farms in the upper Chehalis area of Thurston, Lewis and Grays Harbor counties .
- Sep. 22, 2000 WaDOE has announced planned farm inspections in the uppper Chehalis area. This is part of a continuing effort to curtail watr pollution that comes from livestock farms.
- Aug. 21, 2000 Lower Chehalis fecal coliform TMDL attracts attention of City of Chehalis Mayor, in this article from The Chronicle.
- Jun. 16, 2000 WaDOE announces good news about dairies in our state.
- Apr. 14, 2000 The Olympian reports that as a dairy shuts down other uses of the land raise concerns.
- Mar. 02, 2000 WaDOE reissued the wastewater discharge general permit for dairy farms.
- Nov. 22, 1999 An early version of Drops of Water is online now. Find out about Canoeing the Chehalis, inside dope on culverts, voluntary livestock compliance, wetlands, youth puzzle, wet septics and more!
- Nov. 10, 1999 Livestock and water quality - does voluntary compliance really work?
- Oct. 21, 1999 WaDOE has released a fact sheet for the proposed NPDES general permit for dairies.
- Oct. 21, 1999 WaDOE has announced porposed action to re-issue the dairy general wastewater discharge permit.
- Oct. 16, 1999 Ecology's director visits Grays Harbor dairy and SMA concerns are discussed.
- Sep. 13, 1999 Livestock in general, not just dairy cows, are considered part of the problem in maintaining clean water.
- Sep. 10, 1999 On September 1 the Thurston County Hearing Examiner granted an appeal of an earlier SEPA Mitigated Determination of Non Signfigance (MDNS) which dealt with a manure lagoon in the 100 year flood plain. The decision might be of interesest to residents of floodplains in the Chehalis watershed.
- Jul. 02, 1999 WaDOE reports on a significant water quality violation by a Littlerock Dairy.
- Jun. 18, 1999 Water rights and a new Water Conservancy Board are topics in this article concerning water right application backlog.
- May. 22, 1999 In this AP story from The Chronicle a federal judge has ruled dairy waste is subject to the Clean Water Act.
- Jan. 25, 1999 Three Chehalis watershed dairies gain special recognition!
- Dec. 13, 1998 The Capital Press has two reports on national animal waste plan - confined animal feeding operations.
- Oct. 15, 1998 WaDOE fines a Thurston County dairy for water quality violations in the Black River Watershed.
- Jul. 17, 1998 WaDOE fines Lewis County dairy for violations.
- Jun. 20, 1998 In a story today, The Chronicle, reports on Upper Chehalis dairy inspections.
- May. 30, 1998 Some news dairy owners can be proud of. The The Capital Press reports on a Skagit dairy farmer taking pride in operating his dairy in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act and salmon recovery efforts.
- May. 13, 1998 Here's a program for horse owners
- May. 10, 1998 The The Capital Press ran a story on dairy inspection results due soon.
- the Associated Press, on February 6, 1998, ran a story with the headline:
Bill shields dairy farmers from open records
- February 5, 1998 Dairy inspections begin as reported by The Chronicle.
- February 4, 1998 WaDOE announces Upper Chehalis dairy inspection program
- January 24, 1998 Farmers, officials testify on dairy waste program as part of Senate Bill 6161, from the The Capital Press
- Aug 3 The Capital Press reported this story EPA to stay tough on dairy inspections
- June 30 The Chronicle reported on dairy inspections in this June 28th story.
- EPA plans statewide dairy inspections Capital Press June 1979
- Chehalis dairy farm visits slated in early 1998 Capital Press June 1997
Back to CRC Index - or -
Go to What's New
|
Search this CRC site!
