The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON – The Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the Bonneville Power Administration have scheduled a public hearing at 6 p.m. on May 14 in the Columbia County Public Works Office conference room, at 415 N. Guernsey in Dayton, to provide information and receive comments from the public about a proposed land exchange that could impact the county.

BPA is building a major transmission line, known as the Central Ferry-Lower Monumental line, across a parcel of DNR-managed state trust land in Columbia County. BPA has agreed to acquire the property though an exchange of forest land i...