[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) agrees to more monitoring wells

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

KAFB Widens Aquifer Search For Jet Fuel

By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
April 19, 2012

The Air Force, facing criticism from state regulators, has agreed to  
drill additional groundwater wells to try to determine how close  
leaked jet fuel has come to Albuquerque water supply wells.

But how many wells will be drilled remains a question.

The Air Force had proposed three shallow wells between known areas of  
contamination and the nearest municipal water supply wells, but the  
New Mexico Environment Department in a letter on Friday called that  
proposal "inadequate" given the threat to the municipal drinking  
water supply.

In response, the Air Force has agreed to an additional six wells  
beneath southeast Albuquerque in an effort to determine how deep into  
the aquifer the contamination has reached, top base civilian official  
Tom Berardinelli said at a community meeting Wednesday.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/04/19/news/kafb-widens-aquifer- 
search-for-jet-fuel.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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