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N.M. Science

A science & weather blog by John Fleck

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New Mexico Environment Department: Is Kirtland fuel still spreading?

A November presentation by a top New Mexico Environment Department official about the Kirtland Air Force Base jet fuel spill left a lot of people  (myself included) puzzled. After pushing the Air Force hard over the speed with which the fuel might be moving toward Albuquerque’s drinking water wells, and the accompanying risk, the Environment Department (as I reported Dec. 1) seemed to be backing off.

Or not. As I reported in this morning’s paper, the aggressive face of NMED is back. You can see it in a March 27 letter to the Air Force from the NMED (pdf on the NMED web site). And also in the letter below, which NMED sent to Bernalillo County Commissioner Maggie Hart Stebbins:

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