ST. CHARLES — Dozens of private well owners from five counties filed through the St. Charles Community Center on Thursday to learn more about a resource they use daily: water from their private wells.

Residents who want to check the drinking water from their private wells for nitrates will have the opportunity to do so from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the Scott County Public Works facility on ...

After decades of farm and food processing pollution contaminating groundwater in northeast Oregon, state regulators are ...

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A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction requested by the Environmental Protection Agency that will force Granger-area dairies to test for nitrates in nearby residential drinking water.

After decades of farm and food processing pollution contaminating groundwater in Northeastern Oregon, state regulators are ...