Medical Lake water tests OK

Medical Lake’s water is safe to drink.

That’s according to City Administrator Doug Ross, who informed City Council at its May 16 meeting that their wells tested as non-detect levels of Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and/or Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contamination.

In a May 18 interview, Ross said staff sampled two of its wells out of precaution because of the PFOA and PFOS contamination in private wells near Fairchild Air Force Base’s and in the city of Airway Heights.

Ross said as soon as he got off the phone with a property owner whose well was contaminated, he had staff test and sen...