From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:22:53 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Fairchild Air Force Base and Spokane International Airport (WA) |
PFAS is in the groundwater west of Spokane. What’s known about the contamination is only growing. Oct. 29, 2023 at 6:00 am Updated Oct. 29, 2023 at 6:00 am By Manuel Villa and Isabella Breda Seattle Times (WA) October 29, 2023 SPOKANE COUNTY — Millions of years ago, lava poured through Eastern Washington, cooling and hardening to form the foundation of this land. Then, near the end of the last ice age, massive floods carved out river channels that would then be filled with sediment and groundwater as glaciers crept northward. In late August, Chad Pritchard, a hydrogeologist at Eastern Washington University, drove his white minivan along Craig Road in Airway Heights. He pointed to power lines along the road. One of those ancient rivers, or paleochannels, lies beneath them, he explained. Today, groundwater here in the West Plains near Spokane flows northeast and supplies hundreds of residential wells with drinking water. But on top of this complex, underground water system sit two of Eastern Washington’s largest airports: Fairchild Air Force Base and Spokane International. … For the entire article, see https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/pfas-is-in-the-groundwater-west-of-spokane-whats-known-about-the-contamination-is-only-growing/ — Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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