[Neighbors] Notices of Disapproval the NMED didn't send to Kirtland

[dave mccoy via Neighbors_nobhill-nm]

Dear All,

Citizen Action obtained the attached documents from  a Public Records
Request.  Why does the NMED not issue or post such documents? Political
games? More secrecy about a poisoned Albuquerque aquifer?  Have a look for
yourself at the mess we're in.

It is time there is an independent review of what is going on and an
accounting for the expenditure of well over $130,000,000.  The Legislature
asked for such a review in 2014 and never got it.

After Kirtland AFB submitted a 2014 RCRA Facility Investigation it was
later retracted by the Air Force.  The 8/14/2014 comments of the NMED never
saw the light of day for the public. The public is kept away from any
technical meetings. There are no agendas, minutes, recordings or
transcripts, no record of the broken Air Force promises, no organization
chart of who does what.

And the public has not been able to see the January 19, 2018 comments about
the 2017 RFI either.  It is stamped DRAFT.  And veterans should beware the
serious threat to the Veterans Administration Hospital drinking water
supply well that no longer has a monitoring well because it was submerged
by a rising water table.!  It was known in 2009 that the water table was
rising and action was not taken.  Today 53 out of 62 shallow groundwater
monitoring wells are submerged and can't monitor the plume of toxic
Ethylene Dibromide.

The RCRA Facility Investigation is the most important document that can be
produced by the Air Force because it is supposed to have all the data
necessary about the site in order to come up with a plan for long term
remediation. Year after year the same data gaps are seen -- how much, how
deep and wide, how fast, how close to municipal wells.

And it's evident from these two docs that the AF has done an extremely poor
job for the RFI.

Instead what we get is a bunch of Strategy Plans that are unenforceable and
a plan by the Air Force to move to "monitored natural attenuation" instead
of aquifer cleanup.

Please forward to your list serve.

Dave McCoy, Executive Director
Citizen Action New Mexico
818 448-9981
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