[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Drilling on Kirtland [AFB, NM] wells to start in 2015"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Drilling on Kirtland wells to start in 2015

By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal
September 18, 2014

The Air Force unveiled a proposal Wednesday to begin drilling wells  
in 2015 to try to intercept groundwater contamination from a Kirtland  
Air Force Base fuel spill before it can reach Albuquerque municipal  
drinking water wells.

In all, the proposal calls for eight new cleanup wells to be  
operating by August 2016.

But a top Air Force official acknowledged that the first of the wells  
will not be installed until mid-2015, missing a December deadline to  
get that phase of the work completed. "We will not be achieving that  
goal by December of this year," Deputy Assistant Air Force Secretary  
Mark Correll told members of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water  
Utility Authority board.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/464188

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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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