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Columbia Falls Removes Municipal Well from Service Following ‘Forever Chemical’ Detection

Two samplings found PFOA at 7.0 to 8.1 parts per trillion, nearly double the EPA limit, city officials said.

Summary by Flathead Beacon
The city of Columbia Falls removed one of its three municipal wells from normal service after recent laboratory testing detected perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) — one of thousands of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals.”  Two separate samplings — one in June and confirmation tests in September — detected the PFAS chemical at the […]

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Flathead Beacon broke the news on Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
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