Los Alamos Groundwater

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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LANL Reports on Water Studies

ROGER SNODGRASS
lamonitor.com (Los Alamos, NM)
April 13, 2004

POJOAQUE - Information about water quality in the environment
surrounding Los Alamos National Laboratory runs hot and cold, but at
Monday's quarterly meeting of the lab's groundwater protection program
some recent hot topics were viewed from a larger perspective.

"The 60-year history of the laboratory has not seriously impacted the
regional aquifer," said Charles Nylander, the program director. "But we
have seen contamination in the aquifer at levels that are very low."

The laboratory has been studying water quality since environmentalism
became a national concern in the 1970s and 1980s, incrementally
discovering new layers of complicated behavior in the regions
hydrological system. The way water works carrying different chemical
components through divergent layers of the Pajarito Plateau can't be
explained on the back of a napkin.

Acronyms and technical jargon make straightforward communications
difficult. Understanding comes from combining geological features,
canyon names, locations of water wells and test wells at varying depths,
then visualizing the shape, direction and pace indicated by comparative
test results in three dimensional space over time.

...

for the entire story, see
http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2004/04/13/headline_news/news01.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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