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"'We've
had a six-fold increase in the number of drug labs during the past four
years, and there seems to be no end in sight,' said Joe Stohr, who manages
Ecology's spill-response program" (Meth
Labs Busts At Record Pace, News
Miner,
February 8, 2001)
Department of Ecology
Drug Labs and Dump Sites Reported by County in 2001
TOP SIX COUNTIES:
Pierce 585, King 271, Spokane
248, Thurston 151, Benton & Snohomish 154.
COUNTIES IN ALPHABETIC ORDER:
| Adams |
|
3 |
Grays Harbor |
|
41 |
Pierce |
|
585 |
| Asotin |
|
5 |
Island |
|
5 |
San Juan |
|
1 |
| Benton |
|
85 |
Jefferson |
|
6 |
Skagit |
|
11 |
| Chelan |
|
34 |
King |
|
271 |
Skamania |
|
2 |
| Clallam |
|
3 |
Kitsap |
|
54 |
Snohomish |
|
69 |
| Clark |
|
57 |
Kittitas |
|
5 |
Spokane |
|
248 |
| Columbia |
|
2 |
Klickitat |
|
4 |
Stevens |
|
15 |
| Cowlitz |
|
9 |
Lewis |
|
61 |
Thurston |
|
151 |
| Douglas |
|
5 |
Lincoln |
|
5 |
Wahkiakum |
|
2 |
| Ferry |
|
4 |
Mason |
|
30 |
Walla Walla |
|
16 |
| Franklin |
|
15 |
Okanogan |
|
3 |
Whatcom |
|
5 |
| Garfield |
|
0 |
Pacific |
|
3 |
Whitman |
|
3 |
| Grant |
|
27 |
Pend Oreille |
|
5 |
Yakima |
|
36 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
1886 |
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Department of Ecology 2000 county lab
counts
Department of Ecology 1999 county lab
counts
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