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Organic solutes in ground water at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-15
Prepared on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri8215

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Abstract

In August 1980, the U.S. Geological Survey started a reconnaissance survey of organic solutes in drinking water sources, ground-water monitoring wells, perched water table monitoring wells, and in select waste streams at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL). The survey was to be a two-phase program. In the first phase, 77 wells and 4 potential point sources were sampled for dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Four wells and several potential point sources of insecticides and herbicides were sampled for insecticides and herbicides. Fourteen wells and four potential organic sources were sampled for volatile and semivolatile organic compounds. The results of the DOC analyses indicate no high level (>20 mg/L DOC) organic contamination of ground water. The only detectable insecticide or herbicide was a DDT concentration of 10 parts per trillion (0.01 microgram per liter) in one observation well. The volatile and semivolatile analyses do not indicate the presence of hazardous organic contaminants in significant amounts (>10 micrograms per liter) in the samples taken. Due to the lack of any significant organic ground-water contamination in this reconnaissance survey, the second phase of the study, which was to follow up the first phase by additional sampling of any contaminated wells, was canceled.

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Leenheer, J.A., Bagby, J.C., 1982, Organic solutes in ground water at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-15, iv, 39 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/wri8215.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Organic solutes in ground water at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 82-15
DOI 10.3133/wri8215
Year Published 1982
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Idaho Falls, ID
Description iv, 39 p.
Country United States
State Idaho
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