2014 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:14:02 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "State rejects plan to clean up [Kirtland Air Force Base, NM] fuel spill"
 
State rejects plan to clean up KAFB fuel spill

By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal
June 10, 2014


Kirtland Air Force Base's plans to clean up a massive fuel leak would make the problem worse, spreading contamination to Albuquerque groundwater that is currently clean, the New Mexico Environment Department has concluded.

"The proposed strategy would actively enhance the spread of contamination into the very resource NMED seeks to protect, Albuquerque's drinking water supply," Environment Department official Tom Blaine wrote in a June 6 letter.

In April, Kirtland floated a proposal to increase pumping on one of the base's drinking water wells to try to divert the underground flow of contamination. The idea was to pull fuel-contaminated groundwater away from a danger zone where it threatens municipal drinking water wells beneath a southeast Albuquerque neighborhood.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/413278/news/nmed-rejects-plan-to-clean-up- kafb-fuel-spill.html

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