Environmental geophysics at the Southern Bush River Peninsula, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

Abstract

This report provides administrative and technical staff responsible for environmental planning and remediation at Aberdeen Proving Ground with the final results and conclusions from geophysical studies conducted at the Bush River Peninsula beginning in April 1994. A companion report entitled Environmental Geophysics at Kings Creek Disposal Site and 30th Street Landcfill, Aberdeen. Proving Ground, Maryland (Davies et al. 1995) provides additional regional information concerning areas to the northwest of the sites described in this report. The ground-penetrating radar and seismic studies for these two reports overlap. One technology not listed in the workplan, downhole seismic velocity measurements, was added to the study to assist in the interpretation of seismic reflection data. A detailed description of the methodology and results of these measurements is presented in the companion report (Davies et al. 1995). Resistivity sounding, originally proposed in the workplan, was deleted from the study because it was considered redundant.

Demonstration of the AGI Universal Samplers (F.K.A. the GORE (registered trademark) Modules) for Passive Sampling of Groundwater

“…The lithology of this unit consists of both sands and gravels as well as areas of silts and clays and is highly variable due to disturbances from excavation and land-fill activities (Lorah and Clark 1996). Paleochannels of various sizes and orientations have been mapped throughout the Southern Bush River Peninsula (Davies et al 1995). This unit is discontinuous in the Canal Creek area to the northnorthwest of Kings Creek and west of the Southern Bush River area.…”