[CPEO-MEF] Soil removed from Kirtland Air Force Base (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contractor removes contaminated soil from New Mexico base

By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press
Santa Fe New Mexican
August 7, 2014

ALBUQUERQUE - Crews were busy excavating tons of soil from Kirtland Air Force Base on Thursday as part of a multifaceted, long-term effort to keep a huge plume of jet fuel contaminants from reaching some of the city’s drinking water wells.

The Air Force is under pressure from New Mexico environmental regulators and the agency that provides drinking water to the Albuquerque metropolitan area to step up its efforts to address the steadily moving plume, which has been decades in the making.

The goal of the excavation is to remove 1,700 cubic yards of soil - about 100 semi-truck loads - from an aircraft fuel loading station on the base where the underground leak originated about 40 years ago. The work began earlier this summer and will continue through mid-September.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/contractor-removes-contaminated-soil-from-new-mexico-base/article_474a2c92-d08c-543e-b431-1bbb5428f008.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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