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

[Lenny Siegel]

PFAS is in the groundwater west of Spokane. What’s known about the contamination is only growing. 

Oct. 29, 2023 at 6:00 am Updated Oct. 29, 2023 at 6:00 am   
By Manuel Villa  and Isabella Breda 
Seattle Times (WA)
October 29, 2023


SPOKANE COUNTY — Millions of years ago, lava poured through Eastern Washington, cooling and hardening to form the foundation of this land. Then, near the end of the last ice age, massive floods carved out river channels that would then be filled with sediment and groundwater as glaciers crept northward.

In late August, Chad Pritchard, a hydrogeologist at Eastern Washington University, drove his white minivan along Craig Road in Airway Heights. He pointed to power lines along the road. One of those ancient rivers, or paleochannels, lies beneath them, he explained.

Today, groundwater here in the West Plains near Spokane flows northeast and supplies hundreds of residential wells with drinking water.

But on top of this complex, underground water system sit two of Eastern Washington’s largest airports: Fairchild Air Force Base and Spokane International.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/pfas-is-in-the-groundwater-west-of-spokane-whats-known-about-the-contamination-is-only-growing/

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Lenny Siegel
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