- By Joe Utter
- May 26, 2022UpdatedMay 26, 2022
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- https://www.ifiberone.com/columbia_basin/drought-emergency-status-extended-in-adams-grant-and-okanogan-counties/article_77917094-dd21-11ec-892a-6bd7263568ab.html
SPOKANE — Despite a cool and wet spring, the state Department of Ecology on Thursday has extended a drought emergency declaration for watersheds in eight eastern Washington counties.
Under the declaration, five watersheds spanning parts of Spokane, Lincoln, Grant, Adams, Whitman, Stevens, Okanogan and Pend Oreille counties will remain in “drought emergency” status that was first declared last year.
All other counties east of the Cascade Range will be downgraded to “drought advisory” status. Counties west of the Cascades no longer fall under drought conditions.
The spring of 2021 was the second-driest on record, and then an unprecedented late June heatwave smashed temperature records across the state. In response, Ecology issued an emergency drought declaration in July 2021 covering 96 percent of the state. Only Seattle, Everett and Tacoma avoided the designation.
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