[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Regulatory turmoil, Air Force resistance waylay Kirtland [AFB, NM] jet fuel plume cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Regulatory turmoil, Air Force resistance waylay Kirtland jet fuel plume cleanup

By Scott Wyland 
Santa Fe New Mexican
September 14, 2024

Lurking underground in the middle of Albuquerque is a massive Air Force jet fuel plume that contaminates soils and groundwater, with no cleanup officially planned a quarter-century after it was uncovered.

The lack of progress in tackling Kirtland Air Force Base’s mammoth fuel spill, discovered in 1999, drew recent public attention and calls to pick up the pace by some political leaders who were baffled about how efforts had stalled for two decades.

The Air Force is still in the first phase of investigation. A second phase is required before a full cleanup strategy can be crafted for the plume that, regional water managers say, will continue growing as long as it remains in the ground, possibly flowing later toward neighborhood wells while making a huge volume of water unavailable amid a changing climate.

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For the entire article,
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/regulatory-turmoil-air-force-resistance-waylay-kirtland-jet-fuel-plume-cleanup/article_05a8d470-3f00-11ef-8ea0-63774582bf2a.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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