Annual report on monitoring of the unsaturated zone and recharge areas at INEL to the state of Idaho INEL Oversight Committee

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6588200· OSTI ID:6588200

King, B; Bloomsburg, G; Horn, D; Liou, J; Finnie, J

During the early years of the INEL, the USGS conducted extensive studies (sitewide drilling program) of the geology and hydrology of the area collecting varied data over the years. The unsaturated zone has not received much attention until recently. The studies that have been done are a result of problems or concerns arising from liquid radioactive waste disposal. The TRA facility has the most information published about its waste disposal activities. The ICPP has less data about the unsaturated zone due to the fact that most waste water disposal has been to a well. Little is known about the effect of waste water disposal at the NRF on the unsaturated zone. Essentially no information was found about waste disposal activities at other facilities, primarily because there does not appear to be any reported problems associated with waste water disposal at these locations. The RWMC has received much attention in the last few years as the result of being priority No. 1 in the superfund clean up of the INEL. A considerable amount of data are available describing the unsaturated zone at the RWMC. These data have been collected to field calibrate a radionuclide migration model for the RWMC.

• Research Organization: Idaho Univ., Moscow, ID (United States). Water Resources Research Inst.
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG07-91ID13042
• OSTI ID: 6588200
• Report Number(s): DOE/ID/13042-18; ON: DE93012946
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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