[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Spokane International Airport and Fairchild Air Force Base, WA

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘I’ve been drinking poison for 30 years’: West Plains residents reckon with slow-moving PFAS cleanup

By Amanda Sullender 
Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA)
December 26, 2023

Chuck Danner has stopped drinking water from his private well out in the country on the outskirts of Spokane.

Danner is one of many residents on the West Plains who have been exposed to dangerously high levels of PFAS chemicals. He had thought his 400 foot deep well would have kept him safe from PFAS-contaminated firefighting foam found at the Spokane International Airport and Fairchild Air Force Base. But a recent blood test found PFAS levels in Danner almost twice the upper limit of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes is safe.

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It’s not a new problem. The city of Airway Heights took its PFAS-contaminated wells out of commission in 2017 when the firefighting foam contamination was discovered. Six years later, the contamination on the base and airport is just beginning to be remedied and the thousands on West Plains exposed to the toxic chemical have few answers.

Cleanup on Fairchild will take an undetermined amount of time and contamination stemming from Spokane International Airport could take up to 12 years to clean up.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/dec/26/ive-been-drinking-poison-for-30-years-west-plains-/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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