Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with emergency www.salem-news.com 2010 The Cowlitz County Incident Command Post that was county-wide has been closed. Officials there say command has been transferred back to each individual agency and jurisdiction. The Cowlitz County Joint Information Center will be open on Saturday, January 10th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Storm recovery/Cowlitz County is preparing to have a web site and a call center available next week where you can report damages caused by the January Rainstorm 2009. http://salem-news.com/articles/january092009/cowlitz_update_1-9-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january092009/cowlitz_update_1-9-09.php Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:52:00 PST Could another major coal disaster happen at one of the many Tennessee-like power plant coal pollution dumping sites across the United States? How much toxic arsenic, lead and other heavy metals that endanger drinking water are being dumped into those unlined “surface impoundment” sites each year? How did federal regulation of coal pollution break down to allow these threats to exist … and what needs to happen if the public and environment are to be protected against future Tennessee-like disasters, as well as the “slow-motion” leaching of toxic metals into drinking water, rivers and streams? http://salem-news.com/articles/january052009/coal_data_1-5-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january052009/coal_data_1-5-09.php Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:49:00 PST Today, Columbia County and the City of Vernonia prepared declarations of emergency contingent upon resource depletion, due to the severe winter storm involving heavy snow, ice and heavy rainfall, which has resulted in the imminent possibility of flooding and severely taxing county resources. Columbia County Commissioner's approved the wording of the declaration, which is contingent upon worsening weather conditions that could deplete the County's resources in response to the flood warning issued by the National Weather Service for the Upper Nehalem River. The National Weather Service Report predicted that the river levels would peak above flood state at around 6:00 AM on Friday. http://salem-news.com/articles/january022009/columbia_emerg_1-2-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january022009/columbia_emerg_1-2-09.php Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:43:00 PST