Long-term Monitoring Plan for the Central Nevada Test Area
- Nevada Site Office, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
This report discusses the long-term monitoring strategy developed for the Central Nevada Test Area (CNTA), where the Faultless underground nuclear test was conducted. It includes a thorough literature review of monitoring well network design. A multi-staged approach for development of the long-term monitoring well network for CNTA is proposed, incorporating a number of issues, including uncertainty of the subsurface environment, cost, selection of well locations, etc. The first stage is to use hydrogeologic expertise combined with model simulations and probability based approaches to select the first set of monitoring wells. The second stage will be based on an optimum design methodology that uses a suitable statistical approach, combined with an optimization approach, to augment the initial set of wells and develop the final long-term monitoring network.
- Research Organization:
- Nevada Site Office, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC08-00NV13609
- OSTI ID:
- 821946
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NV/13609-30; DRI Pub. No. 45201
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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