Potential for Formation of Disinfection
By-Products from Storage of Chlorinated
Surface Water in the Basalt Aquifer near
Fallon, Nevada
By Miranda S. Fram, Douglas K. Maurer, and Michael S. Lico
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CONTENTS
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Purpose and Scope
- Geochemical Setting
- S-Line Canal
- Basalt Aquifer
- Experimental Methods
- Sample Descriptions
- Experimental Setup
- Analytical Methods
- Experimental Results
- Unchlorinated Experiments
- Chlorinated Experiments
- Water only
- Water and rocks
- Conclusions
- References Cited
- Appendixes
- 1. Conditions and results for experiments using laboratory organic-carbon-free water
- 2. Conditions and results for experiments using ground water
- 3. Conditions and results for experiments using surface water
FIGURES
- Map showing location of Carson River Basin and Lahontan Valley
- Map showing geographic features of Lahontan Valley and location of basalt aquifer and samples
- Graph showing dissolved-organic-carbon (DOC) concentrations in unchlorinated samples of
organic-carbon-free laboratory water, ground water from the Fallon basalt
aquifer, and surface water from the S-Line Canal in Fallon, NV
- Graphs showing dissolved-organic-carbon (DOC) concentrations in samples of organic-carbon-free
laboratory water, ground water from the Fallon basalt aquifer, and surface
water from the S-Line Canal in Fallon, NV, equilibrated for 20 days with free
chlorine at 25°C alone and with three different rock samples from the Fallon
basalt aquifer
- Graphs showing trihalomethane (THM) concentrations in samples of (A) organic-carbon-free
laboratory water, (B) ground water from the Fallon basalt aquifer, and (C)
surface water from the S-Line Canal in Fallon, NV, equilibrated for 20 days with
free chlorine at 25°C alone and with three different rock samples from the Fallon
basalt aquifer
TABLES
- Properties of water samples used in experiments
- Properties of rock samples used in experiments
- Conditions and results for experiments using unchlorinated water
- Conditions and results for experiments using chlorinated water only
- Conditions and results for experiments using rock samples from Rattlesnake
Hill and chlorinated water
- Conditions and results for experiments using rock samples from DB-1 and
chlorinated water
- Conditions and results for experiments using rock samples from DB-4 and
chlorinated water
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