The water contamination could come from an Air Force base, as in my case...or a corporation; an Army Post; a Naval Station; or a farm or ranch.  I recently got the following email, from a fellow named Ken, and he writes...

"I enjoyed reading your articles on chemical dumping, a topic most people, except the victims, don't care anything about.  Due to illness, I have called chemical sensitivity, I have stumbled upon a new high-tech form of chemical dumping, that I believe the government is doing all across the country.  

It involves taking a waste chemical and somehow making it super-volatile...so when it's dumped into a river or sprayed into the air...it evaporates within minutes, leaving no trace.  The problem is that people within a few miles of the dumping, people will unknowingly breath large amounts of the fumes.  

Nobody wants to believe this stuff, but it's true .  Part of the problem, is that nobody wants to appear to be afraid of something they can't see, because others will think they are weak or crazy, etc.  Also, people want to believe that their government would never do anything to harm them, and they're living in a country that is safe and run by rational people.  I have a feeling that the government is going to get away with this for years to come."

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The reader will find a list of my articles on this topic, at the bottom of this page, but there are no links, because I will turn this information into an eBook sometime in the near future. 

In the meantime, the following newspaper article was written by John Fleck, a staff writer for the Albuquerque Journal, and the piece was published on August 26, 2013.  The headlines read;

'Kirtland to test pumping of water'

"An Air Force contractor Friday will begin pumping contaminated groundwater from beneath Kirtland AFB and an adjacent Albuquerque neighborhood. The initial testing is small, an aarly test of a sykstem that might later be employed for larger scale cleanup.  Observers said the milestone is important.  It is the first time since the 1999 discovery of a massive Kirtland Air Force Base aviation fuel spill that contaminated groundwater will pumped up for treatment. 

The Air Force and the state regulators have been criticized for not moving more quickly.  "People have been saying, 'You need to pump real water,' said Michael Jensen of Amigos Bravos, an enviromental and water policy group. 

The pumping is part of a new, more aggressive push by state regulators to deal with the problem.  'What I am unwilling to do is to allow us to wait any longer,' state Environment Secretary Designate Ryan Flynn said last month when plans for the pump test were announced.  Data from the monthlong test will be used to determine whether larger scale pumping might be an effective long-term cleanup strategy, according to Tom Blaine, head of the Envionment Department's Environment Health Division. 

But even as the initial pumping gets underway, questions remain about disposing of the water.  The test will be conducted in two phases.  Initially, less than 2,000 gallons will be pumped to clean out the well.  That water will be stored in tanks and tested to see if there is any contamination.  Once that is completed, there will be a longer test to determine the well's effectiveness at pulling out contaminated water. 

The Air Force is still working with the state and the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority on a plan for disposing of the water according to Kirtland spokeswoman Meredith Mingledroff.  A filtering system will be used to clean contamination.  A filtering system used to irrigate parks and street medians in southeast Albuquerque. 

That plan hinges on whether the water meets safe water standards, said Rick Shean, a water quality hydrologist with the utility.  "There's still some details that we all need to work out," Shean said.  Any such disposal plan on parks or other public property, could raise public concerns because of questions about how well the contamination has been cleaned out of the water, said Dave McCoy with Citizens Action, an Albuquerque water quality activist group.  "It's problemamatic, to say the least." McCoy said."

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