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Lauren Enright's avatar

I'm horrified. Civil employees like firefighters are complete hero's full stop. For them to have served their entire life and used toxic PFA retardant to fight fires and keep our communities safe. I'm speechless as to the third party companies providing the toxic substance and holding the local and state govts accountable. I started a water think tank, Axiom Climate for this very reason...to educate on water risks(physical, governance, infrastructure), innovate with water technologies and expose the world to what can be do for our water quality!! Makes me so sad that the US gov't is not protecting its citizens.

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Michele's avatar

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/docs/ATSDR-PFAS-EA-Site-D-SpokaneCounty-Report-508.pdf

I live in one of the most contaminated locations in the nation and now thanks to GEG / SIA this is not likely to improve (previously it was limited to the Fairchild Air Force Base <FAFB>). Everyone touched by this heinous forever chemical should be made whole. It is in our private wells poisoning our crops, livestock, families and civic employees. There needs to be a single F2F agency for innocent consumers/victims to receive information and remediation advocacy and execution on real solutions. Where I live, I recently joined the board of directors for the West Plans Water Coalition and our goal is to be the gold standard of this platform. Working with the appropriate government agencies to hold accountable the polluters. My heart goes out to every person affected by this horrible contaminate. My tears are for the innocent who did nothing but strive to live a healthy rural life on private well water. And it's complicated, almost by design.

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