A Spokane County farmer is facing $100,000 in fines from state regulators who allege he repeatedly irrigated 69 acres of hayfield at his family’s Wild Rose Prairie property without authorization.
Farmer Robert H. Greiff told The Spokesman-Review he’s never spoken to the Department of Ecology and has no intention of paying fines or shutting off his irrigation system.
Greiff has continued pumping water from Wethey Creek this summer despite mailed warnings, a cease-and-desist order and other unpaid penalties delivered by Ecology…