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Resident urges county study after state reissues biosolids permits
Summary
A longtime Packwood-area resident told the Lewis County Board of County Commissioners that newly reissued state permits allowing land application of biosolids risk groundwater and stream contamination, and offered to raise money for a local soil and groundwater study.
Bob Gunther, a Packwood-area resident, told the Lewis County Board of County Commissioners on Jan. 7 that he believes the state’s renewed permits for land application of biosolids are contaminating local streams and shallow groundwater.
Gunther said he has raised the issue at county meetings for about 20 years and that the Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Ecology materials he provided to the commissioners identify “over 700 harmful chemicals” in biosolids from municipal waste plants. He said Lewis County previously joined litigation against…
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