The Washington Department of Ecology has allocated millions of dollars in financing assistance for three local water quality improvement projects.
The City of Tekoa is receiving a 1.5 million dollar loan from the agency to develop plans to improve the sewer plant. Another 1.5 million dollar ecology loan has been extended to the Town of Garfield for a similar project. A 229,000 dollar grant has been allocated to the Whitman Conservation District to improve the water quality in Alkali Flat Creek South of Dusty. The project will plant vegetation buffers along 5,300 feet of the creek.
