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Centralia officials and health experts urge relocation of state game farm after nitrate tests
Summary
City and county officials, public health experts and tribal representatives urged the Capital Budget Committee to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife to identify relocation options for the Bob O'Kane game farm, citing private-well and aquifer nitrate detections (a sample near 39.4 mg/L) and long groundwater residence times.
OLYMPIA — City and county officials, public health experts and tribal representatives urged the Capital Budget Committee to advance Substitute House Bill 2,668, which would require the Department of Fish and Wildlife to identify alternate locations for the Bob O'Kane (Bob Oak) game farm and to request future capital funding for relocation and remediation.
Rob Hatfield, committee staff, summarized the substitute: Fish and Wildlife must identify one or more alternate locations that do not pose a material risk to municipal or residential water supplies, request predesign funding in the 2027–29 capital budget to evaluate candidates, and later request construction funding in 2029–31; the substitute also requires design funding for remediation…
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