[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Long-awaited drinking water testing available for residents near" Fairchild Air Force Base, WA

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Long-awaited drinking water testing available for residents near Spokane 

By Isabella Breda
Seattle Times (WA)
February 22, 2024

Drinking water testing will soon be available for about 300 private and shared wells in the West Plains near Spokane.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Ecology announced Wednesday residents on private wells or water systems that serve fewer than 15 connections and fewer than 25 people per day in the northeast West Plains are eligible to sign up for no-cost testing.

The sampling is scheduled to begin March 4 and, according to a news release, “comes in response to community concerns” about drinking water contaminated with the chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS.

In 2017, Fairchild Air Force Base acknowledged its responsibility for widespread drinking water contamination in Airway Heights, to the northeast, leading the Department of Defense to designate a testing zone and to test some residents’ wells. But some residents living outside of the initial testing area drawn up by the Air Force later discovered their wells were contaminated.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/long-awaited-drinking-water-testing-available-for-residents-near-spokane/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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