From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 24 May 2017 20:58:15 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] "Hundreds bring fears of Airway Heights [WA} water contamination to meeting with Fairchild officials" |
Hundreds bring fears of Airway Heights water contamination to meeting with Fairchild officials by Nina Culver Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA) May 23, 2017 Hundreds of people worried about the water they drink, bathe in and give to their animals packed the Medical Lake High School gym Tuesday night to demand answers. Officials determined last week that some wells near Fairchild Air Force Base, including three wells that serve the Airway Heights public water system, have been contaminated by perfluorinated compounds found in the firefighting foam used on the base for decades. The base stopped using that type of foam last year. Health and environmental experts were available for one-on-one questions, but some people in the crowd were so thirsty for answers that they shouted out their questions anyway. … For the entire article, see http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/may/23/residents-show-concern-about-contaminated-water-du/ See also https://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2017/05/24/hundreds-seek-answers-about-contaminated-water-at-fairchild-meeting-tuesday-night -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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