“Residents in Morrow County demand urgent aid from state for contaminated water”

By Alex Baumhardt | Oregon Capital Chronicle | September 16, 2022

“More than 100 Boardman residents attended a meeting Thursday evening to demand the state guarantee access to safe drinking water in Morrow County…

In both English and Spanish, residents expressed outrage over learning just this year that the state had known the groundwater was contaminated for decades and had let it get progressively worse, that they had been forced to pay for expensive filters and bottled water and that so little information had been shared publicly about the risks of consuming high levels of nitrate over long periods.”