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Residents in Airway Heights, Washington feeling water constraints after chemical contamination from Fairchild Air Force Base

A sign on the entry door to ZipÕs Drive in in Airway Heights gives customers pause before entering. Colin Mulvany/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

PFAS contamination discovered earlier this month has caused all residents within the Airway Heights city limits to be advised to avoid drinking and cooking with city tap water amid findings chemical contamination at Fairchild Air Force Base threatened purity of residential wells.

The chemicals are believed to have come from a fire-extinguishing foam the Air Force used from 1970 until last year on a fire-training site as well as two locations where aircraft have crashed.

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