Dairy waste floods homes near Yakima

An Outlook dairy has unleashed a flood of hazardous water into and around nearby homes. According to the Department of Agriculture, a small levee broke Wednesday in a nearby field owned by Deruyter Brothers Dairy. A mix of water and dairy waste then moved across another farm's compost piles, traveling further downhill toward a cluster of homes. At least four homes were damaged, with dairy waste flooding the living space of at least one of them. The Department of Health is working to test drinking water, but is alerting residents not to drink it. They are also working to give residents clean water. Meanwhile, officials from Yakima County and the Washington State Department of Agriculture were going door to door in the neighborhood Thursday to share the information and drinking water alert.