[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Water authority questions Kirtland [AFB, NM] jet fuel cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel]

Water authority questions Kirtland jet fuel cleanup

BY SCOTT TURNER 
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
July 13, 2019 

The drinking water is safe. The pump-and-treat system will continue. And an additional $90 million will be spent to clean up the contamination from jet fuel spills at Kirtland Air Force Base.

That was the U.S. Air Force’s response to the Journal about a letter the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority sent to Assistant Air Force Secretary John Henderson in late June voicing concerns about the cleanup, including an “apparent slowdown of the progress” at the site.

Bernalillo County Commission Chair Maggie Hart Stebbins said the letter was not an attack on the Air Force, and she commended the military branch for work already done to rid the base and the surrounding area of ethylene dibromide (EDB) contamination caused by decades of jet fuel spills on the base.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.abqjournal.com/1339893/water-authority-questions-kirtland-jet-fuel-cleanup.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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