Hydrology of the Melton Valley Radioactive-Waste Burial Grounds at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee

U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 87-686

by D. A. Webster and M. W. Bradley

Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope

Other studies

Acknowledgments

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory grid

Physiography

Topography and drainage

Climate

Soils and vegetation

Summary of site characteristics

Geologic setting

Stratigraphy

Structure

Hydrologic units

Regolith

Bedrock

Ground-water hydrology

Location and construction of wells

Hydrology of the regolith

Method of investigation

Conceptual model of flow: the regolith

Burial ground 4

Burial ground 5

Burial ground 6

Hydrology of the bedrock

Background and method of investigation

Results

Piezometers

Packers

Aquifer tests

Geophysical logging

Radiochemical analyses of ground water

Conceptual model of flow: the bedrock

Burial ground 5

Melton Valley

Ground-water quality

Surface-water hydrology

Drainage characteristics

Radionuclide discharge

Monitoring

Summary and conclusions

Selected references

Appendix: Data of selected wells described in text and illustrations

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