Whatcom farm fined for illegally irrigating 40 acres of blueberries
Several warnings and a cease and desist order were issued.
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Several warnings and a cease and desist order were issued.
Facing dry wells, water restrictions and risks to fish hatcheries and salmon migration, state officials declared a drought emergency Monday for watersheds spanning a dozen Washington counties. …
The Nooksack Basin and the Upper and Lower Skagit Basins are among the watersheds that are affected by low snowmelt, lack of spring rain and low stream flows.
Washington legislature launched process to quantify and adjudicate water rights in Nooksack River basin. Washington Department of Ecology announced intends to file a complaint, which would trigger a water rights adjudication in Whatcom County Superior Court this summer.
As previously discussed, the Washington legislature launched a process to quantify and permanently adjudicate water rights in the Nooksack River basin. After several years of...