Strategic Petroleum Reserve annual environmental monitoring report, January-December 1984
The following sites were monitored: Bayou Choctow; Big Hill; Bryan Mound; St. James Terminal; Sulphur mines; Weeks Island; and West Hackberry. The environmental monitoring program at these sites provides a mechanism for assessing the impact of Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) activity on the air, surface waste, and ground water. During 1984 air emissions were monitored through measurements and theoretical calculations. Volatile hydrocarbons arising from valves, pumps, tanks, tankers, and brine ponds are the predominant type of air emission from SPR facilities. The quantity of hydrocarbon emissions is generally dependent on the volume of oil throughput, with minimal emissions occurring during periods of static storage. Sulfur dioxide emissions occur during cavern fill at Weeks Island as a result of combustion of displaced gases. Dust emissions from site roads have been mitigated through either application of pavement or dust control agents. The surface waters of the Bayou Choctaw, Bryan Mound, Sulphur Mines, and West Hackberry SPR sites were sampled and monitored for general water quality by the respective site environmental and laboratory personnel. Surface water quality monitoring was not conducted at St. James Terminal or Weeks Island because of the lack of potentially impacted surface waters on or near these two sites. Surface water quality monitoring at Big Hill will be initiated at the onset of site operations there. The following parameters were measured: pH value; solinity; temperature; total suspended solids; total dissolved; dissolved oxygen; biochemical oxygen demand; total organic carbon.
- Research Organization:
- Petroleum Operations and Support Services, Inc., New Orleans, LA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC96-82PO10365
- OSTI ID:
- 5920341
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/PO/10365-T1; ON: DE85008140
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR QUALITY
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
DATA
ELEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FEDERAL REGION VI
GROUND WATER
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
LOUISIANA
MONITORING
NONMETALS
NORTH AMERICA
NUMERICAL DATA
OIL SPILLS
OXYGEN
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLES
PARTICULATES
PH VALUE
RESERVES
RESOURCES
SALINITY
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
SURFACE WATERS
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
TEXAS
TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES
USA
WATER
WATER QUALITY