[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: New Mexico criticizes Kirtland Air Force Base

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Base Effort 'Inadequate'

By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
April 16, 2012

Kirtland Air Force Base’s efforts to determine the extent of jet fuel  
groundwater contamination are "inadequate," according to the New  
Mexico Environment Department, which is demanding new, deeper  
monitoring wells to determine the risk to Albuquerque drinking water  
wells.

The criticism, leveled in a letter Friday, comes after the latest Air  
Force data show contamination from a decades-old leak migrating  
northeast beneath southeast Albuquerque with no clear picture of how  
close the fuel is to the wells that provide drinking water to area  
neighborhoods.

"We don’t know how far it goes," said Rick Shean, a water quality  
hydrologist with the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility  
Authority. That makes it impossible to say how soon the contamination  
might reach the nearest wells, forcing a key part of the area’s water  
supply to be shut down, Shean said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/04/16/news/base-effort- 
inadequate.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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