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Welcome to the Fruit Avenue Superfund Site Technical Advisor's page Here you will find links to all reports associated with our work on the Fruit Avenue Superfund site for the Albuquerque Downtown Action Team. You will also find the correspondence with EPA regarding our reports. As you will see from the correspondence, the Environmental Protections Agency does not endorse all the opinions expressed in these reports. For example, EPA maintains that an $8,000,000, 30-year engineering and monitoring project is required to eliminate a threat to Albuquerque's drinking water supply. We concluded that Albuquerque might attain the same level of protection through a 2-year, $150,000 effort.
The Summary of Reports
provides a 6 page synopsis of our findings. You may wish to begin learning
about our opinions regarding the Fruit Avenue Plume
Superfund Site from this summary. Reading the Historical Overview
of the Fruit Avenue Site with the most recent EPA Fact Sheet (http://www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6sf/pdffiles/fruitavenue.pdf)
provides a very good background for understanding the site. Our Review of
Risk Assessment agrees with the government's findings that the site presents
no imminent risk to human health or the environment. The site does present
a potential future risk to humans if nothing is done. The Review of the
Remedy provides a technical analysis of the site and EPA's proposed $8,000,000
remedy. It is in this document that we suggest that EPA's proposed remedy
needs re-examination due to our analysis of more recent data that was not
available to EPA when they decided upon the 30-year engineering and monitoring
project.
