[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) tests come up clean

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Early tests of KAFB fuel spill come up clean

By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
May 31, 2013


Initial tests from an Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility  
Authority well drilled this spring to monitor for contamination from  
a Kirtland Air Force Base fuel spill have come up clean.

The well, midway between known areas of groundwater contamination and  
the utility’s nearest southeast Albuquerque drinking water well,  
showed no signs of the potentially dangerous chemicals that leaked  
from a Kirtland fuel spill into groundwater and have been moving  
toward Albuquerque’s drinking water wells, said Rick Shean, the  
utility’s water quality hydrologist.

The Air Force has drilled groundwater monitoring wells in the area,  
but water utility officials decided they needed their own independent  
safety check as a sentinel between the fuel spill and a key part of  
the metro area’s drinking water supply.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2013/05/31/news/early-tests-of-kafb- 
fuel-spill-come-up-clean.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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