Geologic and hydrologic data for the Rustler Formation near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, southeastern New Mexico

Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey is investigating the geohydrology in the vicinity of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico. Data presented in this report were compiled in support of a regional groundwater flow model. The data include water-level measurements obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey's GroundWater Site-Inventory and OMNIANA data bases and stratigraphic information interpreted from commercial geophysical logs. REFERENCE Davies, P.B., in press, Variable-density groundwater flow and paleohydrology in the region surrounding the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), southeastern New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-490.

Ground-water flow modeling of the Culebra dolomite

“…• Basic data reports (borehole-specific reports, e.g., Sandia National Laboratories mid University of New Mexico, 1981;Gonzales, 1989;Richey, 1989) • Hydrologic datareports (HydroGeo Chem, 1985;INTERA and Hydro Geo Chem, 1985;INTERA, 1986;Saulnier etal., 1987;Stensrud etal., 1987Stensrud etal., , 1988aStensrud etal., ,b, 1990 • Hydrogeologic interpretive reports (e.g., Mercer, 1983;Beauheim, 1986Beauheim, , 1987aBeauheim, ,b,c, 1988Beauheim, , 1989Saulnier, 1987;Avis and Saulnier, 1990) 2-16…”

“…Several reports have documented the Culebra thicknesses observed in the WIPP-area boreholes (Jones, 1959(Jones, , 1978 Sandia Laboratories andU.S. Geological Survey, 1979a,b,c,d,e,f, 1989a,b,c,d,e;Sandia National Laboratories, 1982;Sandia National Laboratories andD'Appolonia Consulting Engineers, 1982a,b,c, 1983a,b,c;Sandia National Laboratories and U.S. Geological Survey, 1980, 198la,b, 1982, 1983aSandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico, 1981;Mercer et al, 1987;Richey, 1989). The thickness of the Culebra, presented in Appendix B of Cauffman et al (1990), ranges from 5.5 m at the H-2 borehole to 11.3 m in the vicinity of H-7.…”

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act: Part B permit application. Volume 8, Revision 5

“…x Represents borehole and data as reported in Richey (1989) Figure D6 7-4535.3 3014.7-3113.0 3113.0-3310.0 3310.0-3506.9 3506.9-3588.2 3588.2-4055.0 4055.0-4182.3 4182.3-4535.5 4535.5-4731.9 (T.D. ) 4535.…”