The City of Quincy has agreed to pay the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation $400,000 to settle a lawsuit over alleged permit violations at the City's wastewater treatment plant.

The suit was filed by the Hood River, Oregon-based non-profit environmental advocacy group, Columbia Riverkeeper in November, 2024, in U.S. District Court in Spokane.

It alleged the City infringed on its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit through the Washington State Department of Ecology by making discharges in excess of allowable limits and failing to properly monitor and report these releases consistently over the past five years.

The complaint also detailed that the Quincy Wastewater Treatment Facility handles large volumes of wastewater for several of the area's major bus

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