| COUNTY LAB COUNTS |
"'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 | |||||||
Department of Ecology 2000 county lab
counts
Department of Ecology 1999 county lab
counts