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Decades of commercial food production has polluted the groundwater that Umatilla Basin residents rely on. But momentum is finally building to fix the problem.
Industrial runoff has led to hazardous concentrations of nitrates in the subterranean aquifer that supplies most well water in northern Morrow and Umatilla counties.