[CPEO-MEF] Washington "state is requiring the city of Spokane and Spokane County to get affected well owners safe water."

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘We admit it’
Nearly a decade after Spokane Airport found forever chemicals in its groundwater, the state is requiring the city of Spokane and Spokane County to get affected well owners safe water.

by AARON HEDGE
Range Media (Spokane, WA)
February 20, 2026

The two largest local governments in Eastern Washington, which jointly own Spokane International Airport (SIA), are now on the hook to provide clean drinking water to hundreds of West Plains residents whose wells SIA contaminated with forever chemicals.

John Hancock, the founder of the West Plains Water Coalition, which has been advocating for clean water for West Plains well owners for years, said this was a long time coming.

“The coalition suddenly feels like three years of work has finally blossomed,” Hancock said. “We didn't know when we started where we were gonna end up. So this feels to me like a dream come true.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.rangemedia.co/pfas-spokane-airport-safe-water-west-plains/



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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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