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“Not long after they moved into a trailer home on a secluded property in the ponderosas between Spokane and Airway Heights in the early 2000s, Stephanie and Michael Mertell stopped drinking their well water.
Michael was having stomach pains he couldn’t fully explain, though he had an idea of the cause.
‘He would claim over and over, “This water is making me sick,”‘ Stephanie said, speaking to RANGE in their living room, as Michael listened from his old recliner. They thought maybe high levels of phosphorus were causing Michael’s ailment.
The Mertells started hauling bottled drinking water into their home, and have done so since. But they used well water for other things.” …