Item talk:Q229398
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"@context": "http://schema.org/", "@type": "WebPage", "additionalType": "Project", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/idaho-water-science-center/science/hydrologic-investigations-near-remote-handled-low-level", "headline": "Hydrologic Investigations near the Remote Handled Low-Level Waste Facility", "datePublished": "September 20, 2017", "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brian V Twining", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/brian-v-twining", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "orcid", "value": "0000-0003-1321-4721" } }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roy C Bartholomay", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/roy-c-bartholomay", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "orcid", "value": "0000-0002-4809-9287" } } ], "description": [ { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Because we need to know how water and contaminants may travel through the aquifer, we need to gather geophysical, hydraulic property, and water-quality information about the subsurface." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "We drilled one new well upgradient and two new wells downgradient of the new facility. At this site, the water level is about 490 ft below land surface; we are monitoring the water quality of the upper 50 ft of the aquifer. We collected core and geophysical logs to about 550 ft below land surface. We measured hydraulic properties from the unsaturated zone and modeled preferential and diffuse flow and perching mechanisms in the unsaturated zone." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The U.S. Department of Energy has proposed a location for a new facility to store waste at the INL. In the unlikely event that waste leaks from the facility, it will be important to monitor whether the contamination reaches the aquifer and baseline information is need before the facility is built." } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Idaho Water Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/idaho-water-science-center" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Monitoring" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geophysical Logging" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water Quality" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Southeastern Idaho" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Drilling and Coring" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Idaho National Laboratory Project Office" } ]
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