Air Force insists it has Albuquerque fuel issue under control
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 - 00:30
in Physics & Chemistry
At Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., aviation gas and jet propellant have sunk into the aquifer, moving toward wells that help supply Albuquerque's drinking water.KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — As environmental disaster sites go, it doesn't look like much. A scattering of rusting wellhead covers and a machine noisily sucking hydrocarbon vapors from the earth scarcely hint at what has grown into a $50-million headache.