Wednesday, January 14, 2009

City of the Day - Spokane, WA

Spokane is the largest city in and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States, The city is located on the Spokane River in Eastern Washington and is 110 miles (180 km) south of the Canadian border, approximately 20 miles (32 km) from the Washington-Idaho border, and 231 miles (372 km) east of Seattle. Canadian David Thompson explored the Spokane area and began European settlement of Spokane with the westward expansion and establishment of the North West Company?s Spokane House in 1810. The Spokane House was the first long-term European settlement in Washington state and the center of the fur trade between the Rockies and the Cascades for 16 years. In the late 1800s, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest.

You can view all Spokane, WA water companies here.

You can view all Washington water departments here.

Water News

An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1998 through 2002 shows that customers of City of Spokane Water drank water containing up to 12 pollutants. City of Spokane Water is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.

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