[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "‘Milestone’ in Kirtland AFB [NM] fuel spill cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Milestone' in Kirtland AFB fuel spill cleanup

By Ollie Reed Jr.
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
March 25, 2015

For those who consider the long-awaited cleanup of the Kirtland Air  
Force Base fuel leak an answer to prayers, it may seem only  
appropriate that it will start at a church.

The first well designed to extract groundwater contaminated by  
ethylene dibromide is scheduled to start pumping by the end of June  
in the west parking lot of Christ United Methodist Church at 6200  
Gibson Blvd. SE.

"This will be the first groundwater remediation well, a dagger in the  
heart of the (fuel leak) plume," said Dennis McQuillan, geologist  
with the New Mexico Environment Department and part of the fuel spill  
cleanup team. "It's a milestone in the project."


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For the entire article, see

http://www.abqjournal.com/559717/news/a-milestone-in-the-kafb-fuel- 
cleanup.html


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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