[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Fourth well started to attack plume of contaminated water, " Kirtland Air Force Base, NM

[Lenny Siegel]

Fourth well started to attack plume of contaminated water

By Ollie Reed Jr. 
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
November 13, 2016 


Drilling started this month on a fourth well intended to extract groundwater contaminated by the Kirtland Air Force Base fuel leak and send the tainted water to a cleaning system on base.

During a public meeting Thursday, Air Force and New Mexico Environment Department officials said the new well is being drilled south of Ridgecrest Drive and east of San Pedro Drive. It should be operational sometime in January.

About 60 people attended the meeting at the African American Performing Arts Center on the New Mexico Expo grounds. They heard the cleanup team report that 118 million gallons of groundwater has been extracted and treated since the first extraction well went online in June 2015 in a church parking lot at 6200 Gibson SE.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.abqjournal.com/888073/fourth-well-started-to-attack-plume-of-contaminated-water.html

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