A timely correction...

December 29, 2023

Hey, I messed up. In my December 17th post, near the bottom, I reported that EWU geology professor Chad Pritchard would be at The Hub in Airway Heights tonight at 7 p.m. to talk about his work on West Plains groundwater, in connection with the PFAS, “forever chemical” story. I got the month wrong. It’s January 29th, not December 29th, so please don’t go to the HUB this evening if you’re expecting to hear Chad.

While I’m at it, thanks for all your encouraging notes on the Al French and the “forever chemicals” coverup piece from last Thursday. A somewhat fuller version of the story is now at my Rhubarb Skies website.

Geologist Chad Pritchard

Here’s the full suite of the larger West Plains PFAS contamination story dating back to last spring.

•Al French and the “forever chemicals” Cover-up, 12/23/23

•A progress report on the investigation into the West Plains’ toxic water fiasco, 12/17/23

•What a Seattle Times investigation reveals about the poisoned groundwater west of Spokane (10/31/23)

•The Spokane Airport’s word bomb response to disclosure of its PFAS contamination problem (10/13/23)

•The state’s wake-up call for Spokane International Airport’s water pollution problem (8/23/23)

•The trouble Spokane's airport may face for not disclosing its contaminated groundwater problem (8/15/23)

•Rough Landing (7/09/23)

•Robert Bilott, and “Exposure,” the story of a historic civil suit against DuPont for PFAS contamination. (06/27/23)

•A primer on the notorious, synthetic chemical that contaminates drinking water from coast to coast. (06/22/23)

•Scoping the “forever chemical” story on the West Plains (6/04/23).

—tjc