[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) cleanup system malfunctions

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Jet fuel cleanup system at KAFB malfunctions

By John Fleck
Albuequerque Journal (NM)
June 27, 2013

Kirtland Air Force Base’s big new jet fuel spill cleanup system,  
intended to slow the spread of base-caused groundwater contamination,  
has been on the fritz for much of June.

The Air Force shut down the big new “soil vapor extraction” machine  
May 31, just four months after operations began, after its control  
system malfunctioned, according to an Air Force report to the New  
Mexico Environment Department.

The Air Force initially hoped it would only be down for 72 hours, but  
it ultimately took nearly two weeks to fix, according to  
correspondence between Kirtland and the Environment Department.

The Air Force got the machine running again June 12. But other  
problems continue to plague the system, which is now only running  
intermittently as workers try to fix it, base civil engineer Brent  
Wilson said in an interview Wednesday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/215035/news/jet-fuel-cleanup-system-at- 
kafb-malfunctions.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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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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