[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Robins Air Force Base (GA) pipeline

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Further water tests find no contaminated wells in south Bibb

BY S. HEATHER DUNCAN
Macon Telegraph (GA)
December 30, 2010

Recent tests of drinking water wells near two south Bibb jet fuel spills 
has revealed no contamination, according to the company that owns the 
pipeline that once leaked the fuel. Nevertheless, the company is 
continuing to test wells and paying to switch some residents to city 
water as it works to clean up the old spills.

An 11-mile pipeline supplying Robins Air Force Base with jet fuel from a 
bulk fuel storage terminal in south Macon leaked several times in past 
decades. Those leaks contaminated ground water with benzene and similar 
compounds in the Feagin Road and Barnes Ferry Road areas.

Although public water is available throughout those communities, not all 
residents use it. Bibb County Commissioner Lonzy Edwards said he 
determined, with the help of the Macon Water Authority, that 88 
residents in the area might still be using wells.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/2010/12/30/1392943/further-water-tests-find-no-contaminated.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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