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EWU geologist Chad Pritchard (on bridge) with students sampling Garden Springs creek in Spokane’s Finch Arboretum in autumn of 2024. The creek is fed with spring water originating near the Spokane International Airport. The sampling revealed levels of PFAS (Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl) chemicals in the creek well in excess of federal drinking water standards

The Peril On The Plains

November 26, 2025

A closer look at recent findings from the West Plains “forever chemical” investigations. Read the entire article here: https://timothyconnor.substack.com/p/the-peril-on-the-plains?utm_campaign=email-post&r=6s4vu&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Who Pays The Price? The Growing Costs of PFAS Solutions

November 20, 2025

It costs manufacturers relatively little to add PFAS to their products, but the public pays millions—even billions—to clean up contamination from those products. Read more on the topic here: https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/publications/documents/2504080.pdf

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West Plains Water Coalition

State provides water filters for PFAS-Contaminated wells in West Plains

July 22, 2025

The Washington Department of Health will install water filters in West Plains homes next month to address PFAS contamination in local wells. Read more from KXLY by clicking here: https://www.kxly.com/news/state-provides-water-filters-for-pfas-contaminated-wells-in-west-plains/article_034360aa-cc09-4fab-8580-7e51407a7577.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

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Mother Nature Would Like a Word, or Two

March 18, 2025

Spokane is better known, now, for basketball than it is for hosting the 1974 World’s Fair, otherwise known as Expo ’74. Even my mother, a former Wazzu cheerleader who passed…

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