Force Inspection Agency (AFIA) Headquarters Air Force Inspection Agency Air Force Safety Center (AFSC) Headquarters Air Force Safety Center Analysis and Cyberspace Operations Division Aviation Safety Division Human Factors Division Occupational Safety Division Office of the Staff Judge Advocate Personnel and Resource Division Public Affairs Division Space Safety Division Training and Force Development Division Weapons Safety Division Missile Defense Agency Sensor & Laser Technology Program Office Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) DTRA Albuquerque Defense Nuclear Weapons School Defense Threat Reduction Information Analysis Center Environmental contamination due to jet fuel spill A jet fuel leak was discovered at Kirtland Air Force Base in 1999. Suspected to have been leaking undetected for decades, an estimated 6 to 24 million gallons of fuel saturated the soil, posing a serious hazard to wells in the south valley connected to the municipal water supply. Air Force Manual 85-16 required annual and five-year inspections of the Bulk Fuels Facility. The inspections were not performed for three decades. In 1985, a waiver was issued to not perform pipeline pressure testing. In 1992, leaking was discovered at the fuels facility pump house Bldg. 1033. In 1994, two waivers were issued: one for the annual pipeline testing and another for pressure testing. In 1999, another jet fuel leak was discovered from a broken 16-inch pipe. It was later learned that the pipe had been leaking fuel undetected since 1953. The Air Force initially estimated that pipe leaked roughly between of jet fuel in that 46-year span. However, state environmental officials believe the number may be as high as , which could make the spill more than twice the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. In 2007, 18 inches of fuel floated over the water table when a well was dug. The escaped jet fuel is submerged 500 ft beneath the ground in the drinking water aquifer. As of 2010, a 6000 ft long plume of contaminants, the most dangerous chemical being ethylene dibromide (EDB), moved within 4000 ft towards the municipal wells that supply the city's drinking water. EDB causes liver and kidney disease and is a suspected human carcinogen. In June 2014, the board of directors of Albuquerque's municipal water utility approved a resolution that "any amount of ethylene dibromide, no matter how small, would be cause to shut down the affected well". It also called for the Air Force "to