groundwater analysis Articles
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Vista Clara delivers slim-line Javelin Wireline to Leibniz Institute of Applied Geophysics in Hanover Germany
In January 2020, Vista Clara President, Dave Walsh, traveled to Hanover, Germany to provide on-site training and support for the Leibniz Institute of Applied Geophysics (LIAG), one of the first customers to deploy the new Javelin 238 Wireline system. LIAG purchased the state-of-the-art Javelin Wireline including both 2.38 (60 mm) inch and 3.5 inch (90 mm) NMR logging tools in order to ...
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Statistical approaches and hydrochemical modelling of groundwater system in a small tropical island
The aquifer of Manukan Island of Borneo, Malaysia had been found to be affected by seawater intrusion associated with excessive groundwater exploitation. This research attempted to characterize the chemistry of an impacted zone in the island using factor analysis (FA), cluster analysis (CA) and a hydrochemical model package (PHREEQC). The factor scores were used to plot the spatial map and to ...
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Comparative analysis of groundwater fluorine levels and other characteristics in two areas of Laizhou Bay and its explanation on fluorine enrichment
The groundwater characteristics in two areas, Tushan town (TS) in Laizhou County and Puzhuang town (PZ) in Changyi County, were compared to discuss the dynamics of fluorine enrichment. Groundwater has average fluorine levels of 2.33 mg/L in PZ town ranging from 0.65 to 9.87 mg/L and of 0.91 mg/L ranging from 0.27 to 1.25 mg/L in TS town. The geochemical indexes indicate seawater intrusion in ...
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A method for reducing purge volumes in deep monitoring wells: a purging experiment.
Regulatory agencies often require three well casing volumes or more be purged prior to collection of groundwater samples for chemical analysis. Costs are high for testing and disposing of potentially hazardous purge water; therefore, efforts must be made to minimize waste-water volume while obtaining representative groundwater samples. Lockheed sponsored a purge experiment on two deep monitor ...
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TerraStryke Erdenhanced In-Situ Passive Pilot Study Chlorinated DNAPL Source Zone Former Dry Cleaner Operations, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada - Case Study
TerraStryke Products LLC (TerraStryke) develop-distribute biostimulation additives proven to cost-effectively enhance chlorinated volatile organic compound (cVOC) biotransformation safely and completely. Our patented biostimulation additive ERDENHANCED leverages existing biogeochemical conditions to facilitate chlorinated alkane/alkene destruction. ERDENHANCED is proven to expedite residual mass ...
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Identification of Naegleria fowleri in warm ground water aquifers
Received for publication February 16, 2009. The free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri was identified as the etiological agent of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis that caused the deaths of two children in Peoria, Arizona, in autumn of 2002. It was suspected that the source of N. fowleri was the domestic water supply, which originates from ground water sources. In this study, ground water from ...
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Soil and groundwater assessment, south-east England
Project Remediation Strategies were appointed to undertake a soil and groundwater assessment to assist a client in understanding the potential environmental liabilities associated with the shallow soils beneath part of the site. The client was undertaking a phased renewal of the site tank farm areas, which required the excavation and replacement of shallow soils to allow for new bund ...
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Marshall Iron and Metal BOS 200+ - Case Study
Marshall Iron & Metal in the City of Marshall, Michigan, operated as a railroad maintenance yard from 1899 to 1931 and a foundry from 1938 to 1960. Most recently, it served as an auto salvage/metal scrapyard from 1961 to 1996. Excavation and disposal of soil and debris were completed in the fall of 2015. During these activities, light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL) was observed in an ...
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The Effectiveness of Intrawell ground water monitoring statistics
Abstract The reality of the new statistical evaluation requirements for ground water at Subtitle D facilities are being felt nationwide. All too often these requirements are resulting in unnecessary increases in ground water monitoring costs and erroneous indications of facility impacts. For example, a common situation faced by many older facilities is that there is statistically significant ...
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Managing RCRA statistical requirements to minimize ground water monitoring costs
Abstract This paper will provide an overview of how ground water monitoring statistical choices can significantly impact a facility's ground water monitoring costs. For example, a recent study analyzed the long term ground-water monitoring cost impacts of different statistical analysis approaches on over 20 landfills. The study found that the choice of statistical approach can make over a 50% ...
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BOS 100 Takes on Carbon Tetrachloride at Oregon Site - Case Study
The subject property formerly operated as the Retail and Commercial Farm facility. The facility formerly stored and sold feed, farm equipment, and various farming chemicals (fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, etc.). In 2015, prior to the potential sale of the property, a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) and subsequent Phase II ESA were undertaken. The Phase II ESA identified ...
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TCE Source Area Remediation at a Former Manufacturing Facility Confidential Client – Western Connecticut - Case Study
Project Summary TRS Group, Inc. (TRS), as a subcontractor to AECOM, completed a Standard Fixed Price Remediation (SFPR) of trichloroethene (TCE) in groundwater in Western Connecticut using Electrical Resistance Heating (ERH). The objective of the ERH project was to achieve the prescribed remediation goal for dissolved TCE in groundwater within the treatment volume. The system incorporated 89 ...
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Hydrogeochemistry and groundwater quality assessment of Astaneh–Kouchesfahan Plain, Northern Iran
In this study, the hydrochemical characteristics of 230 bore well samples were analysed in Astaneh–Kouchesfahan Plain. Data interpretation shows that alkaline earths (Ca2+ and Mg2+) exceed the alkalis (Na+ and K+) and weak acids (HCO3−) exceed the strong acids (Cl− and SO42−) and Ca–HCO3 type is the dominant hydrochemical facies. The distribution patterns of the ...
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Groundwater: Low-flow Purging and Sampling
Significant timesavings, improved sample process integrity, quality assurance and minimal quantities of potentially contaminated purge water to manage - are attractive as the focus on groundwater quality sharpens and economics demand best cost-benefit based methods Water has become a vitally important resource. Maintaining its quality and quantity and avoiding pollution are set to be watched ...
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Hydrogeologic Investigation of VOC Contamination in Bedrock Using Mass Flux Analysis – A Case History
Courtesy of US EPA and NGWA proceedings of the 2004 U.S. EPA/NGWA Fractured Rock Conference: State of the Science and Measuring Success in Remediation, September 13-15, 2004, Portland, Maine AbstractA fractured bedrock system was investigated using a combination of hydrogeologic methods to minimize the number and depth of bedrock wells installed during the investigation. These methods were used ...
By Arcadis
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Managing site data and the maintenance of conceptual model and time series outputs at a complex site over an extended period - Case Study
Background Leakages of TCE and the subsequent groundwater contamination at an industrial facility in Adelaide have led to an ongoing investigation and remediation program conducted since 1999. This work comprised site characterisation and remediation, including borehole drilling, monitoring well installation, soil, groundwater and vapour sampling, laboratory analysis and preliminary in-situ ...
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Co‐occurrence of 1,4‐dioxane with trichloroethylene in chlorinated solvent groundwater plumes at US Air Force installations: Fact or fiction
Increasing regulatory attention to 1,4‐dioxane has prompted the United States Air Force (USAF) to evaluate potential environmental liabilities, primarily associated with legacy contamination, at an enterprise scale. Although accurately quantifying environmental liability is operationally difficult given limited historic environmental monitoring data, 1,4‐dioxane is a known constituent (i.e., ...
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Environmental Data Management for Groundwater Contamination
ESdat environmental data management software has been used to manage and report on large datasets generated from an investigation of groundwater contamination on an industrial facility in Adelaide. ESdat was used in managing site data and the maintenance of conceptual model and time series outputs at a complex site over an extended period. Leakages of TCE and the subsequent groundwater ...
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Ethanol Production Plant Monitors Impacts to Water Supply and Stays in Compliance
Application Under current ethanol plant configurations, water use for ethanol production ranges from 4.0 to 6.8 gallons of water required per gallon of ethanol produced. With the average new plant producing 120 million gallons of ethanol per year, water yields in excess of 1,000 gallons per minute are required; therefore adequate water supply is essential to the operation of an ethanol production ...
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Assessing the transport and fate of MTBE
Untitled Document Abstract The ether oxygenates MTBE and TAME have been used in petroleum fuel formulations in the UK since the mid-1980s and have led to contamination of major aquifers with these chemicals, including the Chalk aquifer of southern England. An assessment is made of the controls on the fate of MTBE and BTEX compounds at a contaminated site on the Chalk aquifer, ...
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