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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force on track to meet Kirtland jet fuel cleanup deadline

By Susan Montoya Bryan
Associated Press 
June 3, 2015

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The first of several wells that will make up a pump-and-treat system designed to clean up a massive plume of jet fuel at the edge of Albuquerque has been drilled, officials said Wednesday.

The temporary treatment system at Kirtland Air Force Base is on track to begin operating around the end of the month, but fines imposed by the state for not having the system in place sooner continue to mount.

The state Environment Department in January began imposing a $5,000-a-day penalty because the Air Force missed a deadline to have the treatment system up and running in December.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2015/06/03/air-force-on-track-to-meet-kirtland-jet-fuel-cleanup-deadline/28428943/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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