[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Edge of Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) plume "may have been found"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Edge of fuel contamination may have been found

Associated Press (from Albuquerque Journal)
San Francisco Chronicle
December 1, 2012

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Results of preliminary tests on  
Albuquerque's water supply suggest the Air Force may have found the  
edge of a plume of contaminated groundwater spreading outward from a  
decades-old jet fuel spill at Kirtland Air Force Base.

Jim Davis, head of the New Mexico Environment Department's Resource  
Protection Division, told The Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/ 
11gbtMw) that water drawn from new wells beneath a southeast  
Albuquerque neighborhood that's midway between the contamination and  
the nearest municipal drinking wells appears to be clean of  
contamination.

Davis said the new test results mean the current risk to drinking  
water is small.

Officials are awaiting confirmation of the results.

The fuel came from what officials now believe was a 40-year leak from  
underground pipes at a Kirtland aircraft fuel loading facility.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Edge-of-fuel-contamination- 
may-have-been-found-4083357.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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