[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) "Jet fuel cleanup lags goal"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Jet fuel cleanup lags goal


By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
December 27, 2013

A large vacuum system completed earlier this year to suck  
contamination from the ground beneath a multimillion gallon jet fuel  
spill at the Kirtland Air Force Base fuel loading area continues to  
fall short of design goals, according to documents exchanged earlier  
this month between the Air Force and the New Mexico Environment  
Department.

According to a Dec. 20 NMED memo, the "soil vapor extraction" system  
was designed to remove 90 pounds per hour of contamination from the  
soil but is only removing 55 pounds per hour.

Despite the problems, environment department in its Dec. 20 memo gave  
its formal approval for the soil vapor extraction system, one of a  
number of interim steps the state has mandated to try to deal with  
the fuel spill.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/327615/news/jet-fuel-cleanup-lags-goal.html

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Lenny Siegel
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