2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:01:41 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Airway Heights [WA] water worse than feared"
 
Shawn Vestal: Airway Heights water worse than feared

By Shawn Vestal 
Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA)
June 26, 2018

People living around Fairchild Air Force Base drank water contaminated with a chemical found in firefighting foams, probably for decades.

In the year since the pollution was discovered in city wells, residents have gone from bottled water to home water filters, and city officials have negotiated a temporary deal to access Spokane aquifer water.

The goal has been to find clean water, not clean the dirty water. It’s a good thing, too, given that a new federal report indicates the water around the base was dirtier than previously known.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jun/26/shawn-vestal-airway-heights-water-worse-than-feare/

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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>
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