[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: New extraction well at Kirkland Air Force Base (NM)

[Lenny Siegel]

Officials deploy new tool against fuel leak at KAFB

By Maddy Hayden 
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
February 26, 2018 

Officials working to clean up groundwater contaminated by a decadeslong jet fuel leak on Kirtland Air Force Base hope a new extraction well will cut off the source of the contaminated plume that has spread thousands of feet off base.

The new well on southeast Ridgecrest Drive, just east of the San Pedro Drive intersection, is the closest of four extraction wells to the source of the spill on the northern edge of base boundaries.

“The whole goal is to stop feeding this plume,” said Kathryn Lynnes, the Air Force’s senior adviser on the cleanup project.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.abqjournal.com/1138234/officials-deploy-new-tool-against-fuel-leak.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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