Purgeable organic compounds in ground water at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho; 1988 and 1989

Abstract

Selected purgeable organic compounds, such as total xylene and methylene chloride, were detected in some groundwater samples and some blank samples consisting of boiled deionized water. Their presence in the blank samples suggests the compounds could have been inadvertently introduced into the groundwater samples during or subsequent to collection.

An update of hydrologic conditions and distribution of selected constituents in water, eastern Snake River aquifer and perched groundwater zones, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, emphasis 2019–21

“…Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are present in water from the ESRP aquifer because of waste-disposal practices at the INL. From 1987 to 2021, water samples from many wells completed in the ESRP aquifer at and near the INL were analyzed for VOCs for various water-quality studies (Mann and Knobel, 1987;Mann, 1990;Liszewski and Mann, 1992;Greene and Tucker, 1998;Bartholomay and others, 2000;Davis, 2006aDavis, , 2008Davis, , 2010Davis and others, 2013;Maimer and Bartholomay, 2016;others, 2017a, Bartholomay andothers, 2020;Fisher and others, 2021;and Treinen and Bartholomay, 2022). Analyses from these studies indicated that from 1 to 19 VOCs in water samples from several wells exceeded their minimum reporting levels during those years.…”

Determining three-dimensional hydrologic processes in the eastern Snake River Plain aquifer using geochemical mass-balance modeling, Idaho National Laboratory, eastern Idaho, with contributions by Treinen, K.C.

“…Prior to installation of MLW, collection of water-quality samples from discrete aquifer depths were limited in space and time and were analyzed for a limited number of chemical constituents. These water-quality samples and analyses are presented in Peckham (1959), Jones (1961), Olmsted (1962), Robertson andothers (1974), Mann (1986), Mann and Cecil (1990), Fromm and others (1994), and U.S. Department of Energy (2004Energy ( , 2007. Results from these water-quality analyses are briefly summarized in Bartholomay and others (2015).…”

An update of hydrologic conditions and distribution of selected constituents in water, Eastern Snake River Plain aquifer and perched groundwater zones, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, emphasis 2016–18

“…Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are present in water from the ESRP aquifer because of waste-disposal practices at the INL. From 1987 to 2018, water samples from many wells completed in the ESRP aquifer at and near the INL were analyzed for VOCs for various water-quality studies (Mann and Knobel, 1987;Mann, 1990;Liszewski and Mann, 1992;Greene and Tucker, 1998;Bartholomay and others, 2000;Davis, 2006aDavis, , 2008Davis, , 2010Davis and others, 2013;Maimer and Bartholomay, 2016;Bartholomay, Maimer, and others, 2017). Analyses from these studies indicated that from 1 to 19 VOCs in water samples from several wells exceeded their reporting levels during those years.…”