[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) cleanup "in limbo"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Status of fuel pool cleanup still in limbo

By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
October 5, 2014

In October 2009, the New Mexico Environment Department directed the  
U.S. Air Force to begin cleaning up a half-mile-long pool of spilled  
jet fuel floating atop Albuquerque’s groundwater 500 feet underground  
"as soon as possible."

After nearly five years of stops and starts and changing plans, the  
pool remains largely untouched.

Air Force officials and state regulators say the delay is a  
recognition of the problem's complexity. Critics say the delay is  
increasing the cost of cleanup and the risk to Albuquerque’s  
groundwater.

As they learned more about the nature and extent of the  
contamination, Air Force and state officials say, it became clear  
hasty efforts could inadvertently hurt rather than help by spreading  
contamination instead of cleaning it up.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/474588/news/status-of-the-fuel-pool-cleanup- 
remains-in-limbo.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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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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