[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Water wells will close over any jet fuel contamination" from Kirtland Air Force Base (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water wells will close over any jet fuel contamination


By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
June 19, 2014

Albuquerque's municipal water utility will shut down drinking water  
wells if any contamination from a Kirtland Air Force Base fuel spill  
is detected, no matter how low the levels, the agency's board of  
directors decided Wednesday evening.

"The acceptable level in our water is zero," said County Commissioner  
Debbie O'Malley, a member of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water  
Utility Authority board of directors.

"Our charge is to make sure the water is clean," said City Councilor  
Rey Garduño, also a member of the water utility's board.

The board's position, contained in a policy resolution that was  
approved unanimously, makes official what agency staff members have  
been saying for at least four years - that any amount of ethylene  
dibromide, the most dangerous chemical in the contamination, no  
matter how small, would be cause to shut down the affected well.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/417467/news/wells-will-close-over-any- 
contamination.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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