BDD Project Publications, Presentations and Letters
Integrated Stormwater Monitoring Associated with the 2011 Las Conchas Fires
PowerPoint presentation summarizing surface water quality monitoring from three perspectives: New Mexico Environment Department, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Buckman Direct Diversion Project, following the Las Conchas Fire in July 2011.
October 6, 2011
Post Las Conchas Fire Stormwater and Water Quality Monitoring
PowerPoint presentation by Erika Schwender, Regulatory Compliance Officer of the Buckman Direct Diversion Project (BDD), detailing stormwater quality monitoring efforts by the BDD after the Las Conchas Fire in July 2011.
October 6, 2011
Summary of Rio Grande Water Sampling Efforts by the New Mexico Environment Department, prepared for the Buckman Direct Diversion Board
Report by the New Mexico Environment Department discussing topics including legacy contaminants along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico and related water quality issues both before and after the Las Conchas Fire in July 2011.
October 6, 2011
Integrated Post-Las Conchas Monitoring by Los Alamos National Laboratory
PowerPoint presentation by Los Alamos National Laboratory detailing water quality data and sample collection by multiple agencies following the Las Conchas Fire in July 2011.
October 6, 2011
BDD Project Board
Statement on Memorandum of Agreement with Los Alamos National Laboratory.
After more than three years of repeated formal requests to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to implement a formal Memorandum of Agreement, the BDD Board is asking assistance from our legislators and congressional delegation to implement the formal agreement.
February 4, 2010
BDD Board Chair Rebecca Wurzburger
Letter to Ines Triay, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy, to update the U.S. Department of Energy on discussions between the Buckman Direct Diversion Board and the National Nuclear Security Administration Los Alamos Site Office, and to ask Ms. Triay to intervene in these challenging negotiations.
January 24, 2010
BDD Board Chair Virginia Vigil
Letter to National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, requesting DOE/LANL Memorandum of Understanding with the BDD Project Describing the DOE and LANL Commitments with Regard to the BDD Board’s Six Requested Action Items. Also includes three attachments, an Update on the Six Action Steps BDD Board Asked of DOE and LANL to Protect Source Water Quality as of September 22, 2009 (prepared by Rick Carpenter and Norm Gaume); copy of March 11, 2009 letter from BDD Board Chair Virginia Vigil to the National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy requesting negotiations to establish a Memorandum of Understanding; and copy of November 1, 2007 letter from then-BDD Board Chair Harry Montoya to National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, requesting Los Alamos National laboratory take six specific action steps to protect public drinking water supplies.
October 8, 2009
BDD Project Manager Rick Carpenter
Technical Testimony Before the State of New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission in the Matter of the Triennial Review of Standards for Interstate and Intrastate Surface Waters. The Buckman Direct Diversion Board (BDDB) requests that the New Mexico Water quality Control Commission promulgate the New Mexico Environment Department’s (NMED) proposed New Mexico water quality standards, as amended by NMED, to implement health-based water quality criteria for the public water supply as to five Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) origin radionuclides in the Rio Grande upstream of Cochiti Reservoir (NMED Proposed Amendments 20.6.4.114). The BDDB requests these changes so that our customers are properly informed regarding the source water quality in this segment of the Rio Grande.
August 28, 2009
BDD Project
Request for Proposals for Independent Peer Reviewer
July 16, 2009
Rick Carpenter and Norm Gaume
Update on Six Action
Steps Requested of DOE and LANL by BDD Project Board to Protect BDD Source Water Quality
July 7, 2009
BDD Project
2008 Progress Report
June 10, 2009
Rick Carpenter and Norm Gaume
Update on BDD Water Quality Issues
MAY 26, 2009
Rick Carpenter
PowerPoint Presentation on BDD to Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Review Advisory Committee
May 14, 2009
BDD Board Chair Virginia Vigil
Statement Regarding House Memorial HM120
March 18, 2009
BDD Board Chair Virginia Vigil
Letter to National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy requesting negotiations to establish a Memorandum of Understanding
March 11, 2009
BDD Project
Brochure in English; in Spanish.
March 2009
BDD Board Chair Rebecca Wurzburger and BDD Board Vice Chair Virginia Vigil
Letter to New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau supporting proposed amendments
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Rick Carpenter, Norm Gaume, PE, Robert Gallegos and Kerry J. Howe, PhD, PE, BCEE
PowerPoint Presentation for BDD Town Hall on Water Quality
AUGUST 2008
Rick Carpenter
Letter to Deputy Regional Forester, Southwestern Region Appeal Deciding Officer (Factual Statement of the Applicants Regarding the New Mexico Environmental Law Center “Appeal of the Buckman Direct Diversion FEIS and ROD.”)
APRIL 21, 2008
BDD Board Chair Harry Montoya
Letter to National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy (requesting Los Alamos National Laboratory take six specific action steps to protect public drinking water supplies)
NOVEMBER 1, 2007
BDD Project Supplement
“Making Progress Toward a Sustainable Drinking Water Supply”
JULY 2007