Protect Our Water Jackson Hole (POWJH)has requested that the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) investigate the sources of contamination of a water system south of town that serves The Bird and the Jackson Hole Marketplace convenience store.
…POWJH would like the DEQ to figure out where the nitrates in the water are coming from. Potential sources could be the high density of older septic systems in the area, dozens of which are from the 1970s and 1980s, or heavy industrial use.
A guest shot piece written by the POWJH staff. We can no longer take water for granted at the headwaters of the Snake River. Contributing analysis, advocacy and action, Protect...
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