| Abstract: | Water samples from five monitoring wells adjacent to raffinate pits storing low-level radioactive waste contained concentrations of nitrate as nitrogen ranging from 53 to 990 milligrams per liter. Most samples also had maximum concentrations of calcium (900 milligrams per liter), sodium (340 milligrams per liter), sulfate (320 milligrams per liter), lithium (1,700 micrograms), strontium (1,900 micrograms per liter), and uranium (86 micrograms per liter). The raffinate pits also had large concentrations of these constituents. A water balance made on the raffinate pits indicated a 0.04 to 0.08 inch per day decrease in the water level that cannot be attributed to meterological conditions. These data and seismically-detected areas of saturated overburden beneath one raffinate pit and possibly adjacent to three other pits indicate leakage from the pits. (USGS) |
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| ProdID: | 28054 |
| Citation Author: | Kleeschulte, M. J.; Emmett, L. F. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | vi, 65 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Citation Series: | Water-Resources Investigations Report |
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| Citation Series Number: | 87-4169 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Hydrology and water-quality at the Weldon Spring radioactive waste-disposal sites, St Charles County, Missouri; 1987; WRI; 87-4169; Kleeschulte, M. J.; Emmett, L. F. |
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| Text: | Hydrology and water-quality at the Weldon Spring radioactive waste-disposal sites, St Charles County, Missouri; 1987; WRI; 87-4169; Kleeschulte, M. J.; Emmett, L. F. |
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| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/1987/4169/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
