[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) "steps up VA’s water supply review"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force steps up VA’s water supply review
Feds, state develop plan to monitor supply well over KAFB leak

John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
September 6, 2013

The Air Force has stepped up monitoring at the water well supplying  
the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in Albuquerque because of the  
risk of spreading contamination from a Kirtland Air Force Base fuel  
spill.

The monitoring is one element of a newly developed "Source Water  
Protection Plan" developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and  
the New Mexico Environment Department to ensure uninterrupted water  
for the hospital on Albuquerque’s south side.

The hospital now gets its water from its own well drilled in 1996-97  
on the hospital’s grounds. The well is less than 1,000 feet from the  
nearest groundwater contaminated by a decades-old spill of aircraft  
fuel.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/259115/news/air-force-steps-up-va-water- 
supply-review.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
Fax: 650/961-8918
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