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West Plains resident urges Spokane County to form safe-water task force over alleged PFAS contamination
Summary
In public comment at the Spokane County commissioners' consent meeting, resident Julia McHugh described ongoing PFAS contamination in the West Plains, called for a safe-water task force and cited past local testing and grant decisions she says were not reported to the public.
Julia McHugh, a resident of the Palisades neighborhood on the West Plains, told the Spokane County Board of Commissioners on June 3 that she and other neighbors are drinking water contaminated with PFAS and urged the county to expedite creation of a safe-water task force. "I live on a contaminated well every single day," McHugh said, adding that she is about to install new filters at a personal cost of about $250.
McHugh presented an informal chronology, saying that in 2017 Fairchild discovered contamination at Airway Heights municipal…
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