[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Air Force to reimburse Airway Heights [WA] for clean water ..."

[Lenny Siegel]

Air Force to reimburse Airway Heights for clean water after decades of chemical contamination

by Chad Sokol 
Seattle Spokesman-Review (WA)
November 8, 2017

The U.S. Air Force has agreed to reimburse the city of Airway Heights for water it’s purchasing from the city of Spokane, months after the revelation that firefighting operations at Fairchild Air Force Base have contaminated the former city’s drinking water system.

The Air Force will pay Airway Heights for up to 440 million gallons of clean tap water with a potential cost of more than $687,000 during the next year, according to Air Force officials based in San Antonio. The agreement took effect Nov. 1.

Airway Heights Mayor Kevin Ritchey said Wednesday the Air Force had stopped paying for bottled water for residents who rely on the municipal water system. The military is now picking up some of the costs associated with pumping water from Spokane, which draws from a different aquifer.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/nov/08/air-force-to-reimburse-airway-heights-for-clean-wa/

See also "Air Force may have known about chemical dangers long before Fairchild water contamination"
at http://www.krem.com/news/local/2-on-your-side/air-force-may-have-known-about-chemical-dangers-long-before-fairchild-water-contamination/490358290

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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 at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org