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The escaping water formed new waterfalls and moved boulders, forcing the closure of Westside Road and the Tahoma Creek Trail.

Despite a lot of snow in the mountains, especially late, and a lot here, we just didn't get the snowpack needed.

Regardless of Snowmageddon in February, it's the snowpack in Cascades and elsewhere, and reservoir levels that determine what water will look like irrigation wise this year, and every year.
Kennewick Irrigation District, and others, are now saying the water levels are dropping when it comes to p…

Benton County Sheriff's over the weekend, discovered the driver of this SUV was not impaired in any way, probably embarrassed about how he ended up in the water.
At this time, as of Monday, authorities still don't fully know, but early Monday they got this call about this Explorer in an irr…

Sunday afternoon, Kennewick police were called to the Clover Island boat launch, for a report of a truck that tried to 'join' the boat for an excursion.
Police say the driver was trying to pull the boat out of the water, but the truck slid down the launch ramp and ended up fully submerged..…

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Water Found In Walla Walla Gas Station Tanks

There is this thing called "Slide the City"...And it is freaking awesome!
Basically, this company tours the US with a 1,000 foot long water slide, yes, one fifth of a mile, water slide, and you can ride it!
They are coming to Seattle August 26th, and to Richland sometime soon...

To raise awareness An artist named Belo Serge created an image using 66,000 cups of colored rainwater simulating levels of impurities found in water all over the planet.

I saw this on facebook this morning! Apparently they are giving it away!
Seems like each year I seem to miss the boat when purchasing a floaty for the river! Last year, I saw a cool one when I was floating the Yakima, and I asked them where they got it...

The summer season is fast approaching and what better way to spend free time in the Tri-Cities than on the Columbia River!