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West Plains resident urges Spokane County to halt UGA mapping until PFAS, critical-area data are updated
Summary
At a Spokane County planning workshop, resident Julia McHugh said she lives on a PFAS-contaminated well and asked to be included in draft EIS reviews, warning that outdated critical-area mapping risks the West Plains aquifer. Staff said the critical-areas ordinance is being updated and no UGA decisions have been made.
Julia McHugh, a West Plains resident, told Spokane County planning staff on Dec. 15 that she lives on a PFAS-contaminated domestic well and urged officials to pause any Urban Growth Area (UGA) mapping until critical-areas maps and science are updated. “I’m living on a contaminated PFAS contaminated well,” McHugh said, and she asked to be included in review of draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) materials she said are being produced without sufficient public review.
McHugh said the county’s draft materials appear to have assigned “no critical areas” labels to parcels in recent matrices and warned that…
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