VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 31 | AUGUST 1-7, 2019 | FREE 2019 1-7, AUGUST | 31 ISSUE | 28 VOLUME PHOTOGRAPHY BY NICK TAURO JR JR TAURO NICK BY PHOTOGRAPHY NONSTOP CLEANUP A RIVER, A BAND SANTA FE BITE TAKES POWERPACK AND THE GUITAR NOB HILL BY STORM NEWS: PAGES 6 AND 7 MUSIC:PAGE 27 FOOD: PAGE 12 IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER SINCE 1992 SINCE RIVER THE BY DOWN VAN A IN [ 2] WEEKLY ALIBI AUGUST 1-7, 2019 AUGUST 1-7, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] alibi VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 31 | AUGUST 1-7, 2019 Email letters, including author’s name, mailing address and daytime phone number to [email protected]. Letters can also be mailed to P.O. Box 81, Albuquerque, N.M., 87103. Letters—including comments posted on alibi.com—may be EDITORIAL published in any medium and edited for length and clarity; owing to the volume of correspondence, we regrettably can’t MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: respond to every letter. Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: August March (ext. 245) [email protected] Municipal Wells Ethylene dibromide is not a potent carcinogen FOOD EDITOR: unless you are a certain strain of rat or mouse. It’s Dan Pennington (Ext. 255) [email protected] Uncontaminated ARTS AND LIT.EDITOR: probably not a carcinogen in humans. After all, Clarke Condé (Ext. 239) [email protected] Dear Alibi, even the EPA acknowledges that it has COPY EDITOR: “inadequate evidence” from human studies to Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] The July 25 Kirtland fuel spill article by August CALENDARS EDITOR: March [v28 i30] quotes a representative of the show that EDB is carcinogenic in humans. Ashli Kesali [email protected] SouthWest Organizing Project, Juan Reynosa, who Sincerely yours, STAFF WRITER: refers to a “toxic plume of jet fuel in our water Steven Dapra, Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] Albuquerque SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: supply.” Mr. Reynosa goes on to say that SWOP’s Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] community garden is “using city well water” and that CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: “some members of the community wonder if we’re Where’s the Hype Robin Babb, Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, Samantha raising crops that are going to have poison in them.” Carrillo, Desmond Fox, Maggie Grimason, Steven Luthy, The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Dear Editor, Hosho McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie Authority, which operates the municipal wells serving I don’t think people realize that New Mexico is PRODUCTION ground zero for monumental and unprecedented ART DIRECTOR: Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, wishes to reassure Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] Mr. Reynosa and other concerned members of the policy. We should be excited and proud. Above all ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: community that no Water Authority wells have been ambitious. To recap: The newly elected Governor, Corey Yazzie [email protected] Michelle Luhan Grisham, signed a zero carbon bill GRAPHIC DESIGNER: affected by the fuel spill. The jet fuel plume lies to the Xanthe Miller [email protected] southwest of our nearest well field, and sentinel wells which mandates that NM be carbon free by 2050. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: between the leading edge of the plume and the nearest However, things have been static instead of all- Eric Williams [email protected] Water Authority well would provide ample warning hands-on-deck attitude. Albuquerque’s potential in CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: this is limitless; well, that’s if everyone is on board. Max Cannon, Kayla Church, Michael Ellis, Nate Hewitt, before contamination of any of our wells occurred. We Alyssa Metoyer, Ryan North, Mike Organisciak, also sample and test the drinking water wells nearest to By everyone, I mean industry and private Jen Sorensen business as well. Specifically, fossil fuels (coal, the plume on a monthly basis to ensure that the water SALES remains safe to drink. Should any drinking water wells natural, oil). Currently, they appease local SALES DIRECTOR: face an imminent threat of contamination, we would government with education funding (NM is ranked Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] of course cease to use them before allowing jet fuel 49th). So we put everything, even education, on ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: the back burner for green policy. Not necessarily. Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] constituents into the water supply. Dan Pennington (ext. 255) [email protected] The Water Authority and its governing board Firstly, switching to zero carbon will result in various David Casaus (ext. 270) [email protected] have been working diligently with the Air Force and new sectors of jobs. Such as renewable sources like wind John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] and solar will create jobs. With that, the probability of with the New Mexico Environment Department to ADMINISTRATION ensure that no municipal wells become contaminated energy prices decreasing [means that] extra income can PUBLISHER: as a result of the fuel spill. Certainly some wells are go towards local economies, along with conservation Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] under threat, but we are hopeful that ongoing cleanup and ecological jobs to monitor our water and wildlife. A CONTROLLER: workforce ready to revamp the power grid and make Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] efforts will completely eliminate the possibility of SYSTEMS MANAGER: contamination. Albuquerque’s water supply, updates to new fire codes to prevent forest fires. Jobs Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] meanwhile, continues to meet all federal standards for from bike shops and compact electronic transportation WEB MONKEY: safe drinking water and can be consumed with utmost business. Instead of gas stations, there would be power John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] stations at every block, with maintenance crews OWNERS: confidence. A complete report on water quality in Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott Albuquerque, updated annually, is available on our available. Local sustainable farmi ng and markets within ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: website at www.abcwua.org/Water_Report.aspx. walking distances. Also, a new workforce of skilled Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] David Morris, regulators and enforcers. A revamped recycling sector. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Public Affairs Manager Even save on healthcare since the communities are Madeline MacKenzie Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority physical, depression decreased and vulnerable CIRCULATION populations rehabilitated. All of which creates more CIRCULATION MANAGER: revenue for bettering our education system. Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] Ethylene Dibromide: Drink Up! CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: New Mexico is transitioning into a blue state Darrell Sparks [email protected] Is ethylene dibromide a “potent carcinogen” as and even adopting progressive representatives to Alibi exhume that. Our next senator after Tom Udall INFORMATION interviewer August March claimed while PRINTER: interviewing Maggie Hart Stebbins of the County leaves office should include a bold agenda for The Santa Fe New Mexican Commission [v28 i29]? climate change. New Mexico will place itself on the IN LOVING MEMORY: According to a 1987 EPA report, ethylene map and ABQ will become a destination. So it Doug Albin, Martin Candelaria, Michael Henningsen, Gretchen Hudson, Eric Johnson, Greg Medara, Chico dibromide (EDB) “has been demonstrated to be a won’t be difficult for us to pass legislation. Ramirez, Mina Yamashita potent carcinogen in rats and mice.” Elsewhere in this The fact of the matter is cities are where most people INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER: report, the EPA classifies EDB as a “Probable Human live. It’s crucial that not only ABQ gets this right but all Southwest Cyberport (232-7992) [email protected] Carcinogen.” A few pages later, the report says this cities. 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