Ground-water levels and flow near the industrial excess landfill, Uniontown, Ohio
Water levels recorded on drillers' logs from 279 wells were used to assess the regional groundwater flow system in the area of the Industrial Excess Landfill (IEL) site in Uniontown, Ohio. The flow system was divided into two regional aquifers: a shallow unconfined glacial-drift aquifer and a deeper, semiconfined bedrock aquifer. A composite potentiometric-surface map of the glacial-drift aquifer shows that the IEL site appears to straddle a prominent groundwater ridge that trends northeast-southwest. Groundwater flows radially away from this ridge, primarily to the northwest and to the southeast; as a result, flow in the glacial-drift aquifer at the IEL site moves in a radial pattern away from the site in all directions. a composite, regional potentiometric-surface map of the bedrock aquifer shows a similar elongated groundwater ridge trending northeast-southwest across the northwestern corner of the IEL site; however, the site does not appear to straddle the groundwater ridge in the bedrock potentiometric surface. As a consequence of the radial-type of flow pattern in the glacial-drift aquifer at the IEL site, the direction of potential off-site movement of any contaminant would, in large part, depend on the original location o the contaminant at the IEL site. Available data also indicate a downward flow component; consequently, contaminants present at the site could flow laterally within the local flow patterns and vertically downward within the flow systems. 8 refs., 6 figs.
- OSTI ID:
- 5803531
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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