Airway Heights to continue flushing municipal system
City of Airway Heights and Fairchild Air Force Base personnel (pictured above) will continue to hand out bottled water as the city flushes its water system of perfluoro contaminants.
After the first round of flushing its water system, six of Airway Heights' wells are still over the Environmental Protection Agenciy's perfluoro chemicals advisory levels of 70 parts per trillion. The good news is flushing the system, which used over 15 million gallons of water, seems to be working.
In a May 26 news release, the city announced it had received test results from Anatek Labs that afternoon. Of the 17 samples that were taken from different sources throughout the water system, 11 came back with non-detect levels of contamination. The six test samples that had perfluoro chemicals co...
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