Army's 'forever chemicals' ruined their wells, now they await solutions

In 2021, families near Selah, Washington learned their drinking-water wells were tainted with PFAS - a class of “forever chemicals” with negative health effects - due to pollution from a nearby Army training center. Some residents now rely on bottled water and avoid bathing in their own homes as they wait for a long-term solution from the Army.
(Produced by Ramon Dompor & Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times)
This story was originally published Oct. 23, 2022
Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-...
----------
Watch more from Seattle Times Video: seattletimes.com/video

[@Evilhunknextdoor]

This is why regulations are important. Those that deregulated, allowed this to happen. Thanks corporations. Thanks Reagan.

[@mikehicks2283]

She looks like a stay at home mom. I bet she does have the time to do those dishes by hand. ;)

[@sarahb.6475]

And 100 years ago everyone did the dishes by hand and most people had a house full of kids. They had 7 or 8 or 9 kids. Plus they baked bread from scratch too.

[@kat8838]

Almost seems like the military has been taken over since the nineties. They closed all the bases and moved abroad it seems. Almost seems like they’re secretly sabotageurs and make plans to wreck the place and then quickly move away from the area they just forever polluted. I wanted to move up that way myself and got extremely ill from just driving up there during fire season. The state is impassable without air conditioning it seems. Nearly died along with my son for trying. They didn’t have water or resources for the majority of the state. It ought to be illegal to have a state without waterholes or trees like that. It’s like a middle eastern desert really. I never been so hot and scared in my life. I was at the only rest stop with a group of seagulls on the only patch of grass with a sprinkler, all of us near death and had no way to even make tears and no hospital for a few hundred miles. I went to the hospital and couldn’t even get medical help for fear for my kid who refused to leave the car. We never been quite right since. Really a bad life changing place. I don’t know what the PFAS flashpoint is but I suspect the random fires in barren sandy places is from that. Who ever knew sand itself burns without any carbon even.