This fall, the agency will monitor Jetty Creek to try to catch potential impacts from herbicide spraying. Statewide, tests of treated drinking water rarely find herbicides. Washington's streamside protection rules are "considerably stronger," DEQ officials say. Generally, studies show that clear-cuts...
The SDWRLF program was developed over the course of 18 months in close cooperation with the Oregon Drinking Water Advisory Committee, the Oregon Health Division, the Oregon Economic Development Department, and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. The design that emerged from their ...
An amendment to the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 was passed on Jan. 4 in order to update the prior act's verbiage and lower the maximum lead content for plumbing products from 8% to a weighted average of 0.25%. The law also created exemptions for those products not used in potable ...
ThePRISM Climate Groupgathers climate observations from a wide range of monitoring networks, applies sophisticated quality control measures, and develops spatial climate datasets to revealshort- and long-term climate patterns. The resulting datasets incorporate a variety of modeling techniques and are avail...
Omission beeris out of Portland, and we’re proud of that. Its regularly called the best gluten-free beer in the nation, if not the world. We drink it often, and even many of our gluten-drinking friends have a six pack of it in their fridges. So it’s with excitement that Omission...
From the Forest to the Faucet: Drinking Water and Forests in the US: Methods Paper; USDA Forest Service Ecosystem Services & Market Program Area and State and Private Forestry: Washington, DC, USA, 2011. [Google Scholar] Oregon Department of Forestry. Oregon Land Manager Layer. Oregon Spatial...