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Stories for Grant County

Water Quality stories are grouped according to the Water Quality Program's Five Program Activities.  Some stories may fall under more than one category, and are referenced accordingly.

1. Prevent Point Source Pollution (excluding water cleanup, stormwater, and financial assistance)
    
   • Wine Waste Woes! Collaborating to Clean up Crush
     Wahluke Winery began operations in the Mattawa area in 2005, discharging their wastewater to the city of Mattawa wastewater treatment plant. For the next two years, the city of Mattawa’s treatment plant experienced many treatment upsets due to the high biological oxygen demand (BOD) and low pH from the winery wastewater. A treatment upset means the wastewater may not be treated to the proper level before it is discharged to the environment. Since the area is suitable for winery and fruit processing, the Port of Mattawa saw an opportunity to promote the growth of these industries, so they stepped up to help. The result was no more treatment upsets at the city of Mattawa wastewater treatment plant, and a useable product for irrigation.
     
      
2. Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution (excluding water cleanup, stormwater, and financial assistance)
   
   
    
3. Control Stormwater Pollution
   
   
    
4. Provide Financial Assistance
   
   
    
5. Cleanup Polluted Waters
    
   • Working Together to Protect the Columbia River
     This story describes how several government agencies, tribes, and other interested parties worked together, during the dam relicensing process, to identify actions which may help to reduce or remove negative impacts caused by the dams.
      
6. Other Water Quality-Related Stories
    
   • White Sturgeon Recovery Conservation Program
     Under their Ecology-granted Water Quality Certification, the Grant County Public Utility District (PUD) is required to develop and implement a White Sturgeon Recovery Plan, in consultation with the Priest Rapids Fish Forum. The overall goal of the plan is to increase the natural reproduction of white sturgeon to achieve a population that is appropriate for the available habitat, while supporting recreational and tribal harvest. As part of the PUD′s efforts to restore these fish, more than 9,000 were released into the mid-Columbia River at the end of April 2011.

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