For you newbies to The Cascadia High Desert out there, at a bit more than a hundred miles north and as much a part of the East Cascade Front as we Richland is pretty much next door, pretty much the neighborhood. Home.
After Japan nuclear radiation was detected in Richland Washington drinking water local CBS news station KEPR inquired as to why the federal radiation monitor went offline. The EPA responded they are aware that radiation monitors are broken but no plans to fix it because monitoring radiation is the area is not a priority … The Feds actually have a broken non-working Japan nuclear radiation monitors in 37 US Cities, all not a priority to fix.
