Tagged: Kirtland Air Force Base

Local News
8:37 am
Sun July 29, 2012

Drilling delayed at Kirtland

Credit U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Berenger
In this 2008 photo, the progress of fuel recovery at a pump sight is monitored.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that the drilling of monitoring wells at Kirtland Air Force Base has been delayed until later this year. The monitoring wells are being drilled in order to determine the extent of contamination from a leak of about 24 million gallons of jet fuel.

One of the two contractors drilling the wells has gone out of business.

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