[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP, COMMUNITY: Kitland Air Force Base (NM) jet fuel leak

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Kirtland Jet Fuel Contaminating Groundwater

By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
July 12, 2008

Jet fuel from an old underground Kirtland Air Force Base fuel line has 
reached groundwater near one of Albuquerque's largest water supply 
areas, in and around the city's Ridgecrest neighborhood, officials said 
Friday.

"It's making its way toward some of our most productive wells," said 
John Stomp, Water Resources Manager for the Albuquerque Bernalillo 
County Water Utility Authority.

The contamination is within 1.5 miles of the nearest city water well, 
Stomp said.

The chemicals in jet fuel can cause cancer, said Baird Swanson, an 
environmental scientist with the New Mexico Environment Department.

The Air Force has known about the problem since February 2007 but did 
not make it public until Friday, when it announced a $2.8 million effort 
to drill additional monitoring wells to try to determine how far the jet 
fuel has spread. The service did not want to make the problem public 
until there was a plan in place to deal with it, said base spokeswoman 
Jillian Speake.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/metro/121150607-12-08.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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