[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) jet fuel cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Millions of gallons of jet fuel leaked from AFB for decades

By Stuart Dyson
KOB TV Eyewitness News 4 (Albuquerque, NM)
May 19, 2010

The huge jet fuel leak from Kirtland Air Force Base continues to inch 
its way toward city water wells, prompting base commanders to meet on 
Wednesday with a city advisory board.

The Air Force has already spent $10 million on the leak, which 
scientists believe started in the 1950s, although it wasn’t discovered 
by the Air Force until 1999. State scientists estimate the leak at eight 
million gallons, but the Air Force believes it's under two million gallons.

"It's a definite concern," said Lindsey Gabaldon, who lives in the 
Southeast Heights neighborhood where the fuel is seeping northward, far 
below ground. "I wish they were being a little more vocal about what 
they're doing about it. We've read about it for years and they're still 
having meetings."

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For the entire story, see
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1568098.shtml?cat=504

See also
http://www.koat.com/news/23613098/detail.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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