[CPEO-MEF] WATER: "Residents near Kirtland (AFB, NM) believe tap water is contaminated"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Residents near Kirtland believe tap water is contaminated


By Stuart Dyson
KOB TV-4 News (Albuquerque, NM)
August 11, 2011

Some people in Albuquerque's Southeast Heights have quit drinking  
tapwater, fearing contamination from the huge jet fuel spill at  
Kirtland Air Force Base - contamination the local water authority  
says does not exist, at least not yet.

Eight million gallons of jet fuel leaked from underground pipes years  
ago, seeping into the groundwater, creeping slowly toward city  
drinking water wells. Scientists say it's at least 14 years away from  
contaminating the wells, but many of the people who live in its path  
won't drink the water anyway.

Don't tell Araceli Jimenez there's nothing wrong with the water. She  
thinks it smells like chemicals and bleach and she won't drink it.  
Instead she's on the bottled stuff.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2237756.shtml?cat=516

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Fax: 650-961-8918
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