VIDEO: The City of Spokane and the West Plains Water Coalition handed out water filters on Saturday to West Plains residents dealing with contaminated water tied to the airport pollution zone. NonStop Local stopped by the event and spoke with organizers about how they planned to address the problem. Organizers described the filter giveaway as an early step in a much larger response.

“This is a brand new thing. The government authorities have been really slow over the years to acknowledge the trouble… but now they’re getting started towards acknowledging the danger and starting up with the solutions…” said John Hancock with the West Plains Water Coalition.

Hancock said the issue had built up over several decades. He explained that PFAS had been running downhill from the airport firefighting operation for more than 40 years and had polluted hundreds of wells through synthetic chemicals in the groundwater.

“Because PFAS has been running downhill from the airport firefighting operation for 40+ years and there are hundreds of polluted wells as a result of this synthetic chemical in the groundwater…” Hancock said. “PFAS is a synthetic class of chemicals that we know from Teflon pants, from gore-tex raincoats… Very poisonous…”

KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

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