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Residents press Spokane County on West Plains flooding, aquifer protection and PFAS in workshop
Summary
At a Spokane County placemaking workshop, residents and neighborhood representatives urged planners to map and protect local aquifers, address PFAS contamination in private wells, and account for a West Plains high‑risk drainage area in future land‑use decisions.
Residents raised sustained concerns about groundwater contamination, private‑well PFAS impacts and subsurface flooding at a Spokane County placemaking workshop, pressing county planners to recognize discrete aquifer systems and include groundwater protections in the comprehensive plan.
Several attendees described long‑running local problems that they said must be reflected in the county’s planning maps and policies. Julie McHugh, identified as a Palisades neighborhood resident, told the workshop that “we've known about PFAS contamination since 2017,” and urged formal acknowledgement of a distinct shallow aquifer system that she said supplies thousands of private wells. Derek Warren, who described repeated flooding at his home, told…
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