I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The Albuquerquer-Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority will add more sensitive lab tests for toxic fuel additive to its suite of water quailty tests for southeast city wells near Kirtland Air Force Base, authority and U.S. Air Force official have announced.
EDB is toxic to the brain, skin, kidneys, lungs and liver, and in extreme cases involving exposure to very high concentrations, can cause coma or death, according to the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
EDB is suspected to be a human carcinogen.
No EDB has been identified in Albuquerque drinking water, according to authority officials.
The Air Force will pay approximately $15,000 per year to test ground water near city drinking water wells for EDB, which was identified in chemical analyses of a massive, 8-million gallon jet fuel plumes in groundwater beneath Kirtland Air Force Base. The findings were contained in an April report submitted by the Air Force to the state Environment Department.
EDB is no longer used as a military jet fuel additive, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The fuel plumes beneath Kirtland were caused by leaking underground fuel pipelines, probably over the course of several decades, the Air Force report suggests.
After long reporting the jet fuel plume to be limited to soils immediately adjacent to the jet fuel “farm” on base, the Air Force discovered in 2007 that the plume had reached the city drinking water aquifer and had migrated toward city wells.
