[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Santa Fe water project holds lessons for [Kirtland AFB] Albuquerque" (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Santa Fe water project holds lessons for Albuquerque


By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
April 20, 2014

SANTA FE – Alex Puglisi and his Santa Fe water department colleagues  
have drawn attention in the past year to a nondescript cinder block  
building behind a locked fence on Santa Fe’s west side.

What goes on behind that fence raises a question: Could Santa Fe’s  
experience cleaning contaminated groundwater be a model for dealing  
with Albuquerque’s problems with a massive Kirtland Air Force Base  
fuel spill?

The answer, according to Puglisi and other experts, is mixed.

When the Sangre de Cristo Water Co. found gasoline contamination in a  
well off Cerillos Road back in the 1980s, the then-private water  
company installed a carbon filter to clean the water, then pumped it  
into the municipal drinking water supply.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/386810/news/santa-fe-water-project-holds- 
lessons-for-abq.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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