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Title: Existing data on the 216-Z liquid waste sites

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5703558· OSTI ID:5703558

During 36 years of operation at the Hanford Site, the ground has been used for disposal of liquid and solid transuranic and/or low-level wastes. Liquid waste was disposed in surface and subsurface cribs, trenches, French drains, reverse wells, ditches and ponds. Disposal structures associated with Z Plant received liquid waste from plutonium finishing and reclamation, waste treatment and laboratory operations. The nineteen 216-Z sites have received 83% of the plutonium discharged to 325 liquid waste facilities at the Hanford Site. The purpose of this document is to support the Hanford Defense Waste Environmental Impact Statement by drawing the existing data together for the 216-Z liquid waste disposal sites. This document provides an interim reference while a sitewide Waste Information Data System (WIDS) is developed and put on line. Eventually these and additional site data for all Hanford waste disposal sites will be available on WIDS. Compilation of existing data is the first step in evaluating the need and developing the technology for long-term management of these waste sites. The scope of this document is confined to data describing the status of the 216-Z waste sites as of December 31, 1979. Information and sketches are taken from existing documents and drawings.

Research Organization:
Rockwell International Corp., Richland, WA (USA). Energy Systems Group
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-77RL01030
OSTI ID:
5703558
Report Number(s):
RHO-LD-114; ON: DE82005758; TRN: 82-004790
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English