Following The Story’s coverage of a tainted aquifer beneath the Umatilla Basin, a former DEQ official says anyone who relies on well water has reason to be worried.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Story spent five nights last week reporting on the groundwater crisis in eastern Oregon’s Lower Umatilla Basin, where decades of commercial food production have contaminated the aquifer that sits below the region, infusing it with dangerous levels of nitrates that threaten the health of thousands of residents who rely on private wells for drinking water.
The problem isn’t unique to Morrow and Umatilla counties — there are similarly polluted groundwater regions in the southern
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