[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Kirtland [Air Force Base, NM] pumps water for testing"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kirtland pumps water for testing


By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
October 30, 2013

Air Force contractors turned on a pump Wednesday to begin sucking  
70,000 gallons of contaminated water from 485 feet beneath the ground  
in southeast Albuquerque. Officials looked on as the water,  
contaminated by a decades-old Kirtland Air Force Base fuel spill, was  
pumped across a parking lot to a treatment system and storage tanks.

Relative to the size of the spill, the amount of water involved in  
Wednesday’s test was small. But to the local, state and federal  
officials who gathered for a midday news conference to mark the  
event, the pumping marked a detente in the sometimes tense  
relationship in recent years over the spill and the risk to the  
groundwater that has resulted.

"It does mark the first time that we are actually pumping fuel from  
underground," said New Mexico Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/291599/news/kirtland-pumps-water-for- 
testing.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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