Red splotches on a map ... Washington State Department of Ecology, helped people look up their addresses at the informational session and signed up people who wanted the department to test their soil.

The maps cover tens of thousands of acres across Central Washington. Nearly 20 years ago, the Washington Department of Ecology began studying lead and arsenic soil contamination from historic ...

Efforts to study, map and clean up lingering ... dispose of the contaminated soil and replace it with clean dirt. Frank Peryea, Washington State University professor emeritus, shows off apples ...

Map: Washington Counties With Former ... said high lead and arsenic levels were not disclosed, as state law requires for known soil contamination. Hepner instead discovered it because, until ...

ANACORTES, Wash. (KOMO) — Crews are working to remove contaminated soil and groundwater after a train derailed last week in Washington state. Workers in Skagit County replaced diesel ...

Washington State University recently released a “road map” for learning more about soil health in different types of agriculture across the state. “Soils are complex and our understanding of ...

County officials hope the test will be successful because it could help energy companies by eliminating the need in some cases for companies to ship contaminated soil to out-of-state facilities ...

The polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) chemicals have been found in water, soil and air in more than 600 suspected contamination sites across Washington state. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...

The Department of Energy has declared an emergency at a nuclear-contaminated site in Washington state, after soil caved in over a portion of a tunnel containing rail cars contaminated with nuclear ...

A formerly contaminated site in Pasco, Wash., is proposed to be removed from the state's hazardous-sites list because it has been cleaned up to state standards. The Washington Department ... sale of ...