[CPEO-MEF] "More wells to monitor [Kirtland Air Force Base, NM] fuel spill"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More wells to monitor KAFB fuel spill

By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
August 21, 2014

Federal officials are expanding the network of groundwater monitoring  
wells to get a better idea of the extend of contamination from a  
decades-old Kirtland Air Force Base fuel spill threatening  
Albuquerque’s drinking water supply.

The U.S. Geological Survey, with funding from the Air Force, is  
drilling three new wells between the known area of contamination and  
the nearest Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority  
drinking water wells, to serve as "sentries" to detect any  
contamination nearing the municipal water supply, agency water  
quality hydrologist Rick Shean told the agency’s board of directors  
Wednesday evening.

The wells will also gather data to improve scientists' understanding  
of how soon contamination might reach the wells if nothing is done to  
slow its flow, according to Shean. Estimates of how long that might  
take range from a five to 40 years.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/449504/news/more-wells-to-monitor-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
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