Last spring, the Washington Department of Ecology completed soil sampling and other testing to investigate and evaluate cleanup of smelter-related metals contamination along about 800 feet of waterfront in Northport Park. This area was principally…
EPA is planning a time critical removal action to clean up soil on 16 properties within Northport town limits. EPA’s decision was based on criteria that classifies these properties as a threat to people’s health…
Mindy Smith, M.D. M.S.CCC Board Secretary In concert with EPA’s release of the draft Upper Columbia RI/FS Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA), I was asked to work with Citizens for a Clean Columbia (CCC) board…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expects to release the draft Upper Columbia Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) in May. This is a critical milestone to completing the Remedial Investigation phase of the on-going Upper Columbia…
EPA is planning a time critical removal action to clean up soil on 16 properties within Northport town limits. EPA’s decision was based on criteria that classifies these properties as a threat to people’s health…
Over a decade has passed since EPA reached agreement with Teck in 2006 to conduct an Upper Columbia Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study (RI/FS). EPA intends to complete the Human Health Risk Assessment in early…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated the community on the Upper Columbia River Site Remedial Investigation & Feasibility Study (Upper Columbia RI/FS) in Northport, WA on October 15th. The big news is that the draft…
Six years in the making, two of six turbine units being overhauled in Grand Coulee Dam’s Third Power Plant are now back in operation. The second unit came back online in March. Each of the…
Karen TrebitzUniversity of Idaho PhD student Communications networks are like spider webs of interlinked ties of people and their interactions. The threads are lines of communications, and the intersections, or nodes, represent various organizations, or…
At the Lake Roosevelt Forum Conference, Tim Culbertson will present a hydroelectric pumped storage project being developed by Columbia Basin Hydropower (CBHP). Currently, CBHP manages hydropower generation projects owned by three Irrigation Districts in central…
The backdrop for Forum activities is the unique and distinct needs of Lake Roosevelt, which resulted from creating a reservoir to support operational capacity at Grand Coulee Dam. Two Indian tribes, federal agencies, state agencies and four counties have specific interests in the management of the lake. Individually and collectively, they seek to meet a diverse set of environmental, economic and cultural needs.
Operating as a non profit organization, Lake Roosevelt Forum continues to successfully engage in a set of public outreach activities intended to further strengthen collaboration and cooperation among the many stakeholders with interests in and around Lake Roosevelt.
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