[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, COMMUNITIES: Citizen Action calls for EPA review of Kirtland AFB (NM) oil spill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA assessment sought for fuel spill


By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal
November 27, 2013

Two New Mexico citizen groups, concerned about what they say is slow  
progress in dealing with Kirtland Air Force Base groundwater  
contamination, have repeated their call for the federal Environmental  
Protection Agency to conduct an independent review.

In a letter last week, the groups called on the EPA to conduct its  
own preliminary assessment under the federal Superfund law of the  
risks posed by the fuel spill, which has contaminated groundwater  
beneath Kirtland and adjoining neighborhoods and is moving toward  
Albuquerque drinking water wells.

Dave McCoy of the Albuquerque-based Citizen Action, who is leading  
the push for EPA intervention, complained that the Air Force and  
state Environment Department are not pursuing cleanup “in any  
meaningful way.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/309278/news/epa-assessment-sought-for-fuel- 
spill.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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