groundwater well News
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National Groundwater Awareness Week - March 9-15 2014
Groundwater awareness is important to you! Welcome to the National Groundwater Awareness Week! Now well into its second decade, Groundwater Awareness Week spotlights one of the world’s most important resources — groundwater. Who should be “aware” of groundwater? Quite simply, everyone. Groundwater is essential to the health and well-being of humanity and the ...
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EPA to fund monitoring of groundwater wells at California pesticide dump
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking for public comment on a proposed agreement with Target Corporation to allow for redevelopment of land adjacent to the Frontier Fertilizer Superfund site. Under this agreement, Target Corporation, with EPA oversight, will fund and perform movement of eight groundwater monitoring wells at privately-owned parcels lying to the north and west of the ...
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Offline Field Portal for Environmental Data
ESdat users have been asking for a long time, “when will the Field Portal work offline?” That date has finally arrived; the ESdat Field App has recently been released. The ESdat Field App is an upgrade of the Field Portal, offering all the same functionality and look and feel, but is further optimised for small screens and works offline. Features of the ESdat Field App include: • ...
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AWWA Journal features LuminUltra's Case Study on "Accelerated Microbiological Testing in Membrane Water Treatment Systems"
The Water that a St. John Parish in Southeast Louisiana treats and supplies originates from a groundwater well that produces water of high organic content and color. In the past, the organics were oxidized and broken down by chlorination, but utilities are moving away from this practice because of the production of disinfection by-products (DBPs) such as trihalomethanes and haloacidic acids. The ...
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EPA Region 7 Tribal Program Awards grants to Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas for water quality, response program and general assistance
EPA Region 7’s Office of Tribal Affairs has awarded three grants to the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas to support its water quality, tribal response and general assistance programs for environmental protection and improvement. The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, located near Horton, Kan., occupies approximately 30 square miles of reservation land in portions of Atchison, Brown and Jackson counties in ...
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CL-Out Pilot Study Vandenberg AFB – successful aerobic cometabolism Case Study
A pilot study of the applicability of CL-Out aerobic cometabolism of PCE and other chlorinated solvents was completed at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The pilot study consisted of injection in a single well and groundwater sampling at four surrounding wells to monitor the progress of bioremediation. During the pilot study, samples were analyzed for the contaminants and breakdown products, ...
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Pacific Surveys Offers Advanced Javelin Max NMR Logging in Large Diameter Boreholes
The Javelin Max JPX525 NMR logging tool is uniquely capable of logging medium to large diameter groundwater wells with borehole sizes ranging from 6 inches to 18 inches. It can be used in open boreholes up to 18 inches in diameter, as well as PVC-cased wells as small as 6 inches in diameter. These types of large diameter wells are very common for groundwater production and aquifer storage and ...
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Featured Product: Evaluating the Source of Water to Wells Using Metamodeling
Numerical groundwater modeling is a strength of the USGS, from software development (likeMODFLOW) to applications, such as the regional groundwater availability studies highlighted in the December 2015 News and Highlights. Numerical models are our most powerful tools for decision making. But these models require expertise to operate and require significant computational resources. Natural ...
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Effects of Intraborehole Flows
Two new research papers published in 2019, by an Australian research group led by David Poulsen, build on earlier work by McMillan et al (2014) and others in improving our understanding of the depth origin of water samples collected from long-screened and open boreholes. Background When sampling groundwater wells and open boreholes, many practitioners think no further than using sampling ...
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Groundwater Solutions: Innovating to Address Emerging Issues for Groundwater Resources – August 8-9th, 2017
Westbay, along with distributor, Earth Data Northeast, will be exhibiting at the NGWA “Groundwater Solutions: Innovating to Address Emerging Issues for Groundwater Resources” symposium on August 8 – 9th, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. The Symposium will identify real solutions to large dilute groundwater plumes, emerging contaminants in groundwater, and other constituents that ...
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3 Reasons Why OTT HydroMet Stands Out at Groundwater Week 2022
OTT HydroMet is packing more learning and experience into the National Groundwater Association’s (NGWA) Groundwater Week 2022: check out our groundwater well model equipped with the OTT ecoLog 1000, an all-in-one water level logger with cellular communication, a live thought leadership seminar addressing nitrate monitoring, and a hands-on look at the new OTT PLS 500 sensor ...
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New Sustainable Dust Suppressant
DUST STOP, as currently accepted by most professional resource experts worldwide as a road dust suppressant has now arrived in it's next generation. There is no need to poison the world's environment with toxins and hazardous chemicals curiously allowed by governments any longer. The extremely dangerous chlorides that CEPA and EPA have declared as toxic seem low in cost and high in false claims ...
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Cypher announces next generation of Dust Stop
Cypher's previous Dust Stop was an amazing product but this next generation is so perfect at suppressing road dust and dozens of other soil and dust containment, erosion, serious health conditions and numerous other problems created by fugitive dust that Cypher is pleased to advise to all of those that have been anxiously awaiting this release that it is now here. Dust Stop, as accepted by the ...
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Unilateral administrative order issued regarding Mottolo superfund site in Raymond, N.H. (NH)
EPA has signed a Unilateral Administrative Order, requiring Gillingham Road, LLC to refrain from installing any new groundwater wells or pumping any currently installed groundwater wells on property located northwest of the Mottolo Pig Farm Superfund Site in Raymond, N.H. The UAO serves to prevent the release of hazardous substances because the property is located in an area where new groundwater ...
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Insitu Cleanup of Clay Site in 4 1/2 Months
FT PIERCE, FLORIDA - A discharge at the above site had contaminated the soil and groundwater. The soil characteristic on this site was sandy soil from 0’ to 2’ and dense nonpermiable gray clay from 2’ to 15’. The phase II assessment on May 19, 2004 had determined that approximately 500 cubic yards of soil was contaminated. The area of groundwater contamination was approximately 60’ X 60’ ...
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U.S. EPA Orders Kern County Public Water System to Reduce Arsenic in Drinking Water
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently settled with Arvin Community Services District (ACSD), located in Arvin, Calif., for arsenic violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. ACSD has agreed to provide residents with alternative water until they are found to be in compliance and will pay a penalty of $14,750. In October 2008, EPA issued an order requiring the system to meet the ...
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Contaminated Site Remediated in 4 months (Clay)
CROOKS FARM – FT PIERCE, FLORIDA FDEP FACILITY ID#56-9807808 A discharge at the above site had contaminated the soil and groundwater. The soil characteristic on this site was sandy soil from 0’ to 2’ and dense nonpermiable gray clay from 2’ to 15’. Groundwater fluctuated between 3’ to 6’. The phase II assessment on May 19, 2004 had determined that approximately 500 cubic yards of ...
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Vitens & Grundfos press release: Strategic partnership for realising the energy savings potential in groundwater well fields and pumping stations
On 23 May 2012, Grundfos and Vitens, the largest drinking water supplier in the Netherlands, signed a new strategic partnership agreement committing both companies to investigate energy saving potential in well fields and pumping stations. Vitens aims to reduce their energy consumption by 20% by 2020, and the agreement to apply the Grundfos Well Field Energy Audit (WFEA) to 110 well fields and ...
By Grundfos
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Shallow well installation and monitoring solutions
Solinst Drive-Point Piezometers are excellent permanent or temporary wells used to monitor shallow groundwater, soil and gas up to 25 ft below surface. These well points are ideal for initial site investigations, for long or short-term applications, and can also be used for profiling. Installation using a Manual Slide Hammer, with tubing bypass and the correct drive-point for your application, ...
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Groundwater evaluation platform
SuperGeo Technologies has developed a data platform for groundwater recharge areas in order to evaluate the recharge potential. The platform is able to assist researchers in delimiting groundwater recharge areas and also in determining parameters such as recharge rate, pumping rate, flow rate and recharge potential. Water resource protection is one of the most important policies in Taiwan. ...
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