Posted on 04.05.22

40 years ago, Spokane County let businesses pour chemicals on bare ground at Colbert landfill – environmental disaster still costing county money

Source: https://www.spokesman.com/, April 5, 2022
By: Colin Tiernan

Forty -five years ago, a Spokane County business could truck its used industrial solvents and degreasers to the Colbert landfill and pour them into an open trench, 55-gallon barrel by 55-gallon barrel.

From 1975 to 1980, Spokane County allowed Keytronic, Fairchild Air Force Base and others to dump thousands of gallons of hazardous chemicals at the landfill. Those chemicals trickled into the groundwater, flowed through aquifers to residential wells and came out of homeowners’ taps. Read more.

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