Ground-water flow and ground- and surface-water interaction at the Weldon Spring quarry, St. Charles County, Missouri
Ground-water-level measurements to support remedial actions were made in 37 piezometers and 19 monitoring wells during a 19-month period to assess the potential for ground-water flow from an abandoned quarry to the nearby St. Charles County well field, which withdraws water from the base of the alluvial aquifer. From 1957 to 1966, low-level radioactive waste products from the Weldon Spring chemical plant were placed in the quarry a few hundred feet north of the Missouri River alluvial plain. Uranium-based contaminants subsequently were detected in alluvial ground water south of the quarry. During all but flood conditions, lateral ground-water flow in the bedrock from the quarry, as interpreted from water-table maps, generally is southwest toward Little Femme Osage Creek or south into the alluvial aquifer. After entering the alluvial aquifer, the ground water flows southeast to east toward a ground-water depression presumably produced by pumping at the St. Charles County well field. The depression position varies depending on the Missouri River stage and probably the number and location of active wells in the St. Charles County well field.
- Research Organization:
- Geological Survey, Rolla, MO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AI05-94OR22207
- OSTI ID:
- 578597
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/OR/22207-1; USGS-WRI-96-4279; ON: DE98002779; TRN: 98:009154
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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