[CPEO-MEF] "Hundreds bring fears of Airway Heights [WA} water contamination to meeting with Fairchild officials"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hundreds bring fears of Airway Heights water contamination to meeting with Fairchild officials


by Nina Culver
Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA)
May 23, 2017

Hundreds of people worried about the water they drink, bathe in and give to their animals packed the Medical Lake High School gym Tuesday night to demand answers.

Officials determined last week that some wells near Fairchild Air Force Base, including three wells that serve the Airway Heights public water system, have been contaminated by perfluorinated compounds found in the firefighting foam used on the base for decades. The base stopped using that type of foam last year. 

Health and environmental experts were available for one-on-one questions, but some people in the crowd were so thirsty for answers that they shouted out their questions anyway.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/may/23/residents-show-concern-about-contaminated-water-du/

See also
https://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2017/05/24/hundreds-seek-answers-about-contaminated-water-at-fairchild-meeting-tuesday-night

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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