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Planners recommend exploring environmentally friendly fireworks; goal to reduce perchlorate contamination
Summary
Planning participants recommended the city continue to explore alternatives to perchlorate-bearing fireworks and include an objective to reduce and move toward eliminating fireworks that contribute to lake contamination, citing an existing 2021 ordinance to reduce certain perchlorates by 2025.
Planning participants discussed whether the City of Whitefish should aim to remove fireworks launches from Whitefish Lake because of concerns about perchlorate contamination and other environmental effects. The group agreed to include language directing the city to "continue to explore and implement more environmentally friendly fireworks alternatives, with the goal of eliminating perchlorate contamination to Whitefish Lake."
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