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Biodegradation of Chlorinated Ethenes at a Karst Site in Middle Tennessee

Table 9. Water-quality data for samples collected from selected deep wells


[μS/cm, microsiemens per centimeter; CaCO3, calcium carbonate; mg/L, milligrams per liter; μM/L, micromoles per liter; --, no data; <, less than; *, see table 8 for date samples were collected for trichloroethylene, cis-1,2,-dichloroethylene, and vinyl chloride]

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                                                                                           Nitro-	
	                                                                          Nitro-    gen
	                Water		   Spe-	 			           gen	    am-	      Manga-	
	                level		  cific	     Alka-			 nitrate,  monia,      nese, 		
                       (meters	    pH	   con-	    linity     Dis-	  Total	   dis-	    dis-       dis-
                        above	 (stand-   duct-    (mg/L     solved	 organic  solved   solved     solved		
  Well	 	         sea	   ard	   ance	      as      oxygen	 carbon	  (mg/L	   (mg/L      (mg/L				 
  name	     Date	level)	  units) (μS/cm)    CaCO3)    (mg/L)	 (mg/L)	   as N)    as N)     as Mn)
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Well 4D	   02/12/97	215.01	   7.4	   476	     180	0.2	  --      <0.02	    0.28       0.04
           08/21/97*	213.12	   7.0	   179	      90	1.2       --	   0.06	    0.02       0.04
             5/98	 --	  --	    --	      --       --	  --	  --	   --	      --

Well 1D	   11/12/96*	210.34	   6.9	   830	     265       <0.1	  --	   0.42	    0.04       0.07
           02/11/97	214.71	   6.7	   995	     335       <0.1	  --	   0.03	    0.30       0.11
           08/21/97*	213.36	   7.6	   818	     259       <0.1	   2.5	   0.12	    0.32      <0.01
           11/05/97	206.24	   7.5	   756	     253       <0.1	   1.3	  <0.02	    0.50      <0.01
           02/17/98		   7.2	   634	     230	0.3	   1.4	   0.30	    0.50      <0.20
           04/30/98	210.85	   7.4	   708	     202       <0.1	   7.5	   0.30	    0.09      <0.20
           05/21/98	207.80	   6.2	   736	     220        0.2	   0.7	   0.20	    0.13      <0.20

Well 3D	   11/13/96*	210.30	   7.1	   725	     251       --	  --	   0.14	    0.47       0.01	
           02/12/97	214.52	   7.3	 2,342 	     450       --	  --	  <0.02	    3.40      <0.01
           08/21/97*	213.23	   7.5	   818	     284       <0.1	  --	   0.04	    0.43       0.05
           11/05/97	206.18	   7.3	   844	     319       <0.1	  --	  <0.02	    0.71       0.01	
           02/17/98		   7.1	   711	     294       <0.1	   4.0	   0.10	    0.77       0.10
           04/30/98	210.08	   7.3	   781	     240        0.2	   8.4	   0.20	    0.85       0.90	
           05/21/98	207.11	   6.7	   688	     263       <0.1	   1.3	   0.20	    0.78       0.20

Well 2D	   02/11/97	214.27	   7.0	   598	      --       <0.1	  --	   0.26	    1.70       0.02	
           08/20/97*	213.37	   7.3	   427	     156	3.4	   3.8	   0.11	    0.02       0.02
           11/04/97*	205.73	   7.3	   406	     153	3.3	  --	   0.10	    0.41      --	
           02/17/98		   6.9	   340	     135	2.0	   4.0	   0.60	    0.14      <0.20
           04/30/98	210.57	   7.3	   509	     138       <0.1	   7.7	   0.20	    0.24      <0.20
           05/21/98	207.21	   6.4	   400	     159	0.1	   7.9	   0.20	    0.26      <0.20	

Well 11D   11/13/96*	209.47	   8.2	 1,242 	     113       <0.1	  --	   0.03	    0.47      <0.01	
           02/11/97*	213.35	   7.7	 1,095 	     163       <0.1	  --	   0.02	    0.30       0.02	
           08/20/97*	216.23	   8.2	   776	     137       <0.1	  --	   0.16	    0.14       0.02

Well 12D   08/20/97*	222.65	   7.1	   507	     105	5.5	   6.3	   0.72	    0.05       0.05	
           11/04/97	218.43	   7.2	   557	     266	0.4	  --	   0.10	    0.13      --		
           02/17/98		   6.9	   389	     135	5.8	   4.6	   0.20	    0.02      <0.20
           04/30/98	220.32	   7.4	   369	      82	5.3	   5.9	   0.30	    0.10      <0.20
           05/21/98	217.22	   6.3	   590	     210	0.2	   2.4	   0.40	    0.32      <0.20	

Well 14D   11/13/96*	220.54	   6.8	   738	     333       --	  --	   0.04	    0.06       0.14	
           02/11/97*	219.30	   7.2	   750	     330       --	  --	  <0.02	    0.16       0.14	
           11/04/97*	220.03	   7.3	   789	     338	1.0	   1.8	   0.19	    0.09       0.28

Well 15D-A 11/13/96	223.35	   6.9	   713	     277       --	  --	   0.58	    0.03       0.03
           02/12/97	223.60	   7.2	   830	     230       --	  --	   0.53	    0.02       0.03	

Well 15D-C 11/13/96	221.67	   9.4	   329	     128       --	  --	   0.05	    0.06      <0.01
           02/12/97	221.88	   9.6	   346	     155       <0.1	  --	  --	    0.17      <0.01	

Well 16D-B 08/22/97	 --	   9.6	   627	     140	1.8	  38.0	   0.15	    2.30       0.02	
           11/04/97	 --	  10.5	   697	     126	0.3	  --	   0.20	    4.08      --	

Well 10D-B 08/22/97	220.52	   8.2	   310	     138       <0.1	   2.7	   0.06	    0.05       0.04	
           11/04/97	220.24	   7.0	   531	     227       <0.1	  -- 	  <0.02	    0.08      --	




Table 9. Water-quality data for samples collected from selected deep wells--Continued

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	                                             Chlo-			    cis-	 
                         Iron, Sulfate, 	     ride, 		 Tri-	   1,2-Di- 	
                         dis-	 dis-	  Sulfide,   dis-   Calcite	chloro-	   chloro-	Vinyl	
                        solved	solved	 dissolved  solved   satur-	 ethy-	    ethy-	chlo-
 Well		        (mg/L	(mg/L 	   (mg/L    (mg/L    ation	 lene	    lene	ride	    Ethene     Ethane	
 name	     Date	as Fe)	as SO4)	   as S2-)  as Cl)   index      (μM/L)     (μM/L)      (μM/L)       (μM/L)     (μM/L)	
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Well 4D	   02/12/97	 0.27	  50	  --	      7	     -0.15	 0.01	    0.06	<0.02	     --	       --
           08/21/97*	 0.72	   2	   0.038      3	     --	        <0.01	   <0.01	<0.02	     --	       --	
             5/98	--	  --	  --	     --	     --	        <0.01	   <0.01	<0.02	     <0.04     <0.03

Well 1D	   11/12/96*	 0.41	  22	  --	     91	     -0.39	 0.42	    0.13	 0.74	     --	       --			
           02/11/97	 0.13	  52	  --	    150	     -0.44	<0.01	    0.06	 0.09	     --	       --	
           08/21/97*	 0.17	  36	   0.024     86	      0.45	 0.11	    0.10	 0.05	     --	       --		
           11/05/97	 0.01	  34	   0.002     66	      0.25	 0.02	    0.36	 1.90	      3.39     67.18		
           02/17/98	 0.04	  72	   0.009     45	     --	        --	   --	        --	     --	       --	
           04/30/98	 0.05	  50	   0.003     47	     --	        --	   --	        --           --	       --
           05/21/98	 0.02	  50	   0.028     77	     --	         0.06	    0.12	 0.08	     <0.04     <0.03

Well 3D	   11/13/96*	 0.06	  93	  --	     23	     -0.16	 0.02	    1.89	 1.17	     --	       --	
           02/12/97	<0.01	 110	  --	    440	      0.27	 0.02	    0.62	 0.31	     --	       --
           08/21/97*	 0.03	  67	   1.570     53	      0.41	 0.01	    0.06	<0.02	     --	       --
           11/05/97	 0.11	  71	   2.340     47	      0.19	<0.01	    0.20	<0.02	     <0.93    126.71	
           02/17/98	 0.13	 115	   0.130     38	     --	        --	   --	        --	     --	       --	
           04/30/98	 0.08	  88	   0.013     12	     --	        --	   --	        --	     --	       --	
           05/21/98	 0.04	  90	   0.014     23	     --	        <0.01	    2.37	 2.24	     <0.04     21.22	

Well 2D	   02/11/97	 0.02	  48	  --	     26	      0.18	 6.96	   14.34	 3.92	
           08/20/97*	 0.01	  35	   0.028     10	     -0.04	 1.28	    4.82	 4.10	
           11/04/97*	 0.01	  46	   0.011      8	     --	         6.70	   58.80	12.16	      6.10     40.48	
           02/17/98	 0.02	  49	   0.031      9	     --	         4.54	   11.04	 2.50	     <0.07	4.42	
           04/30/98	 0.08	  36	   0.006    >10	     --	        --	   --	        --	     --	       --
           05/21/98	 0.02	  45	   0.019     11	     --	         0.88	    5.27	 1.17	     <0.04     <0.03

Well 11D   11/13/96*	 0.01	 590	  --	      9	      0.71	 0.52	    1.76	<0.02	     --	       --
           02/11/97*	 0.03	 450	  --	      6	      0.35	 0.02	    1.46	<0.02	     --	       --	
           08/20/97*	<0.01	 260	   3.460      3	      0.66	<0.01	    0.73	<0.02	     --	       --

Well 12D   08/20/97*	 0.03	 100	   0.030      8	     -0.35	 3.04	    0.98	<0.02	     --	       --	
           11/04/97	 0.03	  72	   0.014      8      --	         8.56	    3.88	<0.02	     <0.93     <0.87 
           02/17/98	 0.01	  75	   0.023     37	     --	         0.14	    0.04	<0.03	     <0.07     <0.07 
           04/30/98	 0.06     74       0.012    >10      --         --         --           --           --        --
           05/21/98	<0.01	  90	   0.010     18	     --	         1.29	    0.78	 0.06	     <0.04     <0.03

Well 14D   11/13/96*	 0.03	  65	  --	      9	     -0.24	 2.21	    2.39	 0.10	     --	       --	
           02/11/97*	 0.23	  63	  --	     10	      0.16	 1.51	    3.94	 0.44	     --	       --	
           11/04/97*	 0.01	 120	   0.015     11	      0.36	 2.32	    5.21	 0.93	     <0.93     <0.87

Well 15D-A 11/13/96	 0.02	 130	  --	     <1	     -0.21	<0.02	   --	        --	     --	       --	
           02/12/97	 0.13	 130	  --	      5	     --	        <0.01	   --	        --	     --	       --	

Well 15D-C 11/13/96	<0.01	  26	  --	      6	      0.52	--	   --	        --	     --	       --	
           02/12/97	<0.01	  26	  --	      4	     --	        --	   --	        --	     --	       --	 

Well 16D-B 08/22/97	<0.01	 160	   0.034     15	      1.33      <0.01	    0.05	<0.02	     --        -- 
           11/04/97	<0.01	 150	   0.014     17	     --	        <0.01	    0.03        <0.02	     <0.93	4.19

Well 10D-B 08/22/97	 0.01	  19	   0.504      3	      0.43	<0.01	    0.06	 0.09	     --	       --	
           11/04/97	<0.01	  49	   0.124      4	     --	         0.07	    0.15	 0.12	     <0.93     <0.87
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