2005 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 5 Aug 2005 15:23:43 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Guam fuel leak
 
Navy: No proof that fuel leak contaminated well

By Katie Worth 
Pacific Daily News (Guam)
August 5, 2005

A jet fuel leak detected last month may not have anything to do with
water contamination discovered at the same time in a nearby well, Navy
officials said yesterday.

It's possible that someone dumped some petroleum in the dump around the
same time as the leak occurred, and that's how the well became
contaminated, said Petty Officer 2nd Class Ben Keller of the Navy public
affairs office.

It's also possible that the source was historical pollution from a Guam
Power Authority fuel line, not from one of the two Navy lines in the
area, he said.

Last month a 70-year-old Toto resident noticed a fuel smell in a bucket
of water he pulled up from a well near his property. Shortly thereafter,
it was discovered that a nearby pipeline running jet fuel from Big Navy
in Santa Rita to Andersen Air Force Base was leaking out of a valve.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050805/NEWS01/508050308/1002

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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