BASALT ” The Basalt Town Council on Tuesday night passed a third piece of sweeping legislation designed to guide how the town will grow for years to come. The council voted 6-1, with Mayor Leroy ...

On the banks of the Columbia River, tall columns of rock poke out from the cliffs. “So you see all of these black rocks that are on either side of us, on either side of the river? Those are basalts.

Living in the Yakima Valley, we hardly give basalt a second thought, even though it’s all around us. Three of Yakima’s churches are either built of it, or use it in their foundations. There are pieces ...

Gloria Kaasch-Buerger, Basalt’s new town manager, started with the town on Monday after having only recently moved to Basalt to settle in. In her first week at the town, according to her, she’s been ...

For small scale- where the waste is colocalized - the experiments have this at 10-20 tons per acre per year of application to make it worthwhile. It’s a lot of rock to haul around. Click to expand ...