Leah Beth Ward - Health Journalism Fellow
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Leah Beth Ward
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Yakima Herald-Republic
Dairies implicated in "Hidden Wells, Dirty Water," 2008 Yakima Herald Republic, agree to line lagoons and take other measures to stop groundwater pollution.
Six years after my series about nitrate contamination in the Yakima Valley, Hidden Wells, Dirty Water, and a federal judge finds the first of four dairy plaintiffs violated the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act, significantly calling manure a solid waste, not a nutrient.
Interesting. The EPA here in the Yakima Valley identified recently four dairies as the most ...