From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) jet fuel cleanup |
AF submits plans to deal with Kirtland spill Associated Press Air Force Times June 19, 2010KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - Air Force officials have delivered proposed plans to the New Mexico Environment Department on how to clean up a spill that has left a foot of jet fuel atop an underground reservoir in Albuquerque. The two plans delivered Friday had been due this coming Tuesday. A third plan is due July 7. The Air Force plans to install two dozen pumps to suck jet fuel out of the ground beneath Kirtland Air Force Base and surrounding neighborhoods. The pumps are an interim step while long-term cleanup plans for the massive underground contamination are developed. ... For the entire article, see http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2010/06/ap_airforce_kirtland_fuel_spill_061910/ -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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