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January 27, 2010

WSDOT to retrofit some old highways

  • Whenever it builds new highways in western Washington, the state will spend a little to reduce stormwater pollution from old highways.
    • By GENE JOHNSON
    Associated Press Writer

    Washington state will do more to prevent polluted stormwater from running off state highways into rivers, lakes and Puget Sound, where it poses a serious threat to salmon and other aquatic life.

    In a legal settlement filed Tuesday, the Washington State Department of Transportation agreed that whenever it builds new highways in western Washington, it will also spend a little bit of money to retrofit old ones — thousands of miles of which were constructed without sediment ponds or other pollution controls.


     
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