Soap Lake Conservancy meeting discusses water trends
NANCE BESTON | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 6 months AGO
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SOAP LAKE – The Soap Lake Conservancy held a special meeting Saturday to discuss Soap Lake’s lake water trends. From left are United States Bureau of Reclamation Clyde Lay, Washington Department of Ecology Jaime Short and U.S. BOR Marc Maynard. Not pictured but also at the meeting was Quincy-Columbia Basin Irrigation District’s Roger Sonnichsen. The Columbia Basin Herald will have full coverage of the event in Thursday’s paper.
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