SX Tank Farm Interim Surface Barrier Vadose Zone Monitoring
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
The Hanford Site, in southeastern Washington State, has 149 underground single-shell tanks to store hazardous radioactive waste. A number of these tanks and their associated infrastructure (e.g., pipelines, diversion boxes) have leaked. While some of the leaked waste has entered the groundwater, the majority still resides in the vadose zone. Corrective measures are being taken to mitigate the groundwater impacts from past leaks and spills from contaminants that still reside within the vadose zone. Washington River Protection Solutions, LLC, constructed two interim surface barriers (identified as south and north ISBs) in 2018 over the southern portion of the 241-SX Tank Farm to minimize the migration of the residual contaminants in the vadose zone. Two monitoring instrument nests were installed in 2018 and the data acquisition system was put into function in September 2019. This document summarizes the monitoring methods, the instrument calibration and installation, and the vadose zone monitoring plan for the interim barriers in the SX tank farm.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 1575930
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL--29136
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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