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County outlines PFAS testing, outreach after detections near Vancouver wells; private‑well owners urged to consider filters
Summary
Clark County Public Health described ongoing PFAS testing around Vancouver water stations and a small state‑funded project that has sampled 28 private or small community wells so far; staff said 25 of 28 tested mirrors exceeded EPA thresholds and the county is preparing a larger grant to expand the work.
Clark County Public Health staff told the board on March 26 that the department is conducting targeted testing and outreach after PFAS detections in several City of Vancouver public water stations and that the county is expanding voluntary sampling of nearby private and small community wells.
Brian Dedonker, environmental health specialist and leader of the county’s Hazard Assessment Program, said the county secured a source‑water protection grant from the Washington State Department of Health for the 2024–2025 period to pay for testing and voluntary decommissioning where appropriate. Dedonker said the grant identified roughly 75 smaller wells among about 56 owners in time‑of‑travel zones near affected Vancouver wells; after verification the project tracked 63 wells and 28 had been sampled by the county at the time of the presentation.
“City of Vancouver has a total of nine water stations and eight of those nine have been found to have PFAS that do exceed the state action levels,” Dedonker told the board, summarizing city testing and the…
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