[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: PBS Story on Kirland AFB (NM) plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Does decades-long fuel leak threaten drinking water safety in  
Albuquerque?

PBS News Hour
May 13, 2014

KATHLEEN MCCLEERY: The trouble started here at Kirtland Air Force  
Base more than six decades ago. The sprawling base, about the size of  
Washington, D.C., sits on the southeast border of Albuquerque, the  
state’s largest city.
It’s home to the Air Force’s Nuclear Weapons Center, as well as a  
special operations wing.

Colonel Jeff Lanning is commander of the mission support group at the  
base.

COL. JEFF LANNING, Kirtland Air Force Base: It was in this area we  
found fuel actually coming to the surface, and we knew we had some  
kind of a problem at that point.

KATHLEEN MCCLEERY: That problem was a leak dating to the 1950s, when  
railcars and trucks delivered fuel to pipelines, powering planes at  
the growing base.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/decades-long-fuel-leak-threaten- 
drinking-water-safety-albuquerque/

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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
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