USGS

Biosolids, Soils, Ground-Water, and Streambed-Sediment Data for a Biosolids-Application Area near Deer Trail, Colorado, 1999

By M.R. Stevens, Tracy J.B. Yager, D.B. Smith, and J.G. Crock

 

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-51

 

Prepared in cooperation with the
Metro Wastewater Reclamation District and the
North Kiowa Bijou Groundwater Management District

 

This report is available in pdf format below.



ABSTRACT

In January 1999, the U.S. Geological Survey began an expanded monitoring program near Deer Trail, Colorado, in cooperation with the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District and the North Kiowa Bijou Groundwater Management District. Monitoring components were biosolids, soils, crops, ground water, and streambed sediments. The monitoring program addresses concerns from the public about chemical effects from applications of biosolids to farmland in the Deer Trail, Colorado, area. Constituents of primary concern to the public are arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, zinc, plutonium, and gross alpha and beta activity and are included for all monitoring components. This report presents chemical data from the first year of the monitoring program, January–December 1999, for biosolids, soils, alluvial and bedrock ground water, and streambed sediments. The groundwater section of this report also includes climate data, lithologic descriptions, well-completion diagrams, water levels, summary statistics for the water-quality data, and results of statistical testing of selected data for trends and for exceedance of Colorado regulatory standards. Data in this report provide a geochemical baseline for each monitoring component prior to the planned water transfer in 2000 from the Lowry Landfill Superfund site to Metro Wastewater Reclamation District treatment facilities.

 

CONTENTS

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and Scope

Acknowledgments

Biosolids

Objectives of Monitoring Biosolids

Approach for Monitoring Biosolids

Sampling Methods for Biosolids

Analytical Methods for Biosolids

Quality Assurance for Biosolids

Biosolids Data

Discussion of Biosolids Data

Soils

Objectives of Monitoring Soils

Approach for Monitoring Soils

Site Selection for Monitoring Soils

Sampling Methods for Soils

Analytical Methods for Soils

Quality Assurance for Soils

Soils Data

Discussion of Soils Data

Alluvial and Bedrock Ground Water

Objectives of Monitoring Ground Water

Approach for Monitoring Ground Water

Site Selection for Monitoring Ground Water

Sampling Methods for Ground Water

Analytical Methods for Ground Water

Quality Assurance for Ground Water

Ground-Water Data

Meteorology Data

Hydrogeology Data

Hydrology Data

Water-Quality Data

Discussion of Ground-Water Data

Summary Statistics for Ground-Water-Quality Data

Regulatory Standards

Trends

Streambed Sediment

Objectives of Monitoring Streambed Sediment

Approach for Monitoring Streambed Sediment

Site Selection for Monitoring Streambed Sediment

Sampling Methods for Streambed Sediment

Analytical Methods for Streambed Sediment

Quality Assurance for Streambed Sediment

Streambed-Sediment Data

Discussion of Streambed-Sediment Data

References

Data Section


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