[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Engineered Cleanup Technologies Achieve Major Milestones At Kirtland Air Force Base" (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Engineered Cleanup Technologies Achieve Major Milestones At Kirtland Air Force Base

Submitted by Carol A. Clark 
Los Alamos Daily Post (NM) 
August 6, 2018 

The groundwater extraction and treatment system was installed by the Air Force three years ago to collapse ethylene dibromide (EDB) contamination plume and pull it back towards Kirtland Air Force Base. 
 
EDB is a toxic additive that was used in aviation gasoline. Recent monitoring data strongly suggest that the EDB plume footprint and contaminant concentrations are decreasing in the extraction area. More than 445 million gallons of groundwater have been extracted and purified. 
 
“The fact that we are seeing evidence of plume collapse three years into this project is consistent with modeling simulations that were run during the design of this treatment system,” Environment Secretary Butch Tongate said. “It will take many more years of extraction and treatment to fully collapse the plume, but these test results provide the strongest evidence yet that we are on the right path.”


…

For the entire article, see
https://www.ladailypost.com/content/engineered-cleanup-technologies-achieve-major-milestones-kirtland-air-force-base

--

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org