In March 2018, the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) notified Solid Waste Management (SWM) of new information that could potentially impact groundwater (GW) disposal limits and possibly require temporary protective measures (Crowley 2018). GW flow directions in the E-Area Low-Level Waste Facility (LLWF) Slit Trenches (STs), Engineered Trenches (ETs), and the Low Activity Waste Vault (LAWV) have notably changed in the new 2018 General Separations Area (GSA) flow model (Flach 2018a). The 2018 GSA flow model had been updated using 20 years of new hydrologic field data and model calibration methods that employed mathematical optimization software. It was later determined that the primary reason for the change in GW flow directions was due to the influence of low permeability caps that had been placed over the Old Burial Grounds and the Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility (LLRWDF). Updated flow directions in the model produce a higher degree of plume overlap for disposal units (DU's) in the southeastern portion of E-Area than had been predicted in the 2008 E-Area LLWF Performance Assessment (PA). SWM and SRNL outlined the scope for this Special Analysis (SA) and proposed a set of interim measures (IM's) to protect trench operations from exceeding Performance Objectives (PO's) during the preparation of this SA, both of which were approved by the SWM Performance Assessment Review Committee (PARC) (Mooneyhan 2018

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