[CPEO-MEF] Los Alamos (NM) groundwater

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lab struggles to sort water quality data

ROGER SNODGRASS
LAMonitor.com
April 12, 2007

Environmental officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory focused on 
water quality data while updating an ongoing chromium investigation at a 
meeting Wednesday.

Ardyth Simmons, a program manager in water stewardship, gave an overview 
of the laboratory's current evaluation of its abilities to measure 
groundwater quality. The overall monitoring program is based on an 
extensive sampling program from a large number of wells, but results 
must be qualified according to the performance of particular wells, 
according to individual well screens from which samples are collected 
and the particular purpose of each sample.

The laboratory has gradually acknowledged that not all of the wells 
installed during a major effort from 1998-2005 provide reliable 
groundwater quality data, although they say that something useful can 
still be obtained from nearly every well.

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http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2007/04/12/headline_news/news02.txt


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