[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "State rejects plan to clean up [Kirtland Air Force Base, NM] fuel spill"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

...

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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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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