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The Fruit Avenue Plume ( Fap ) Essay

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INTRODUCTION

Site Name, Location and Description

The Fruit Avenue Plume (FAP) Superfund site (Site) is identified on the National Priorities List (NPL) as a chlorinated solvent groundwater plume, located in the downtown area of Albuquerque, New Mexico (Figure 1). The site originally consisted of a groundwater-contaminant plume, spanning multiple aquifer zones up to 544 feet deep; it was approximately 3,500 feet long and ranged in width from 550 to 1,300 feet.

The geographic coordinates for the center of the site are latitude 35°5’21” North, and longitude
106°38’40” West in Township 10N, Range 3E. Figure 2 depicts the overall area of the site and illustrates the location of the nearest Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority (Water Authority) and University of New Mexico (UNM) production wells. Figure 3 presents the Conceptual Site Model.

Site History of Contamination and Selected Remedy The suspected sources of the groundwater contaminant plume are historical releases from several facilities (including Sunshine Laundry, Elite Cleaners, and American Linen Corporation) that operated laundry and/or dry‐cleaning facilities near the corner of 3rd Street and Roma Avenue from 1924 to 1973. In 1973, the buildings were demolished and replaced by a paved parking area as part of an urban development plan. The City of Albuquerque first discovered chlorinated solvent contamination in groundwater near the site in April 1989, during a routine inspection of the

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