Sentences with phrase «groundwater monitoring wells»

A total of 28 wells (many of which were once groundwater monitoring wells) are used to collect, or «intercept,» the methane gas that would have otherwise entered the atmosphere at the outcroppings.

Industry critics once argued samples from the EPA's groundwater monitoring wells should be discounted because of faulty construction.

The best way to test this would be to install several groundwater monitoring wells at various depths and monitor them before, during and after drilling natural gas wells.

Not exact matches

Elevated levels of radium have been found in groundwater samples from shallow monitoring wells on the Bethpage High School campus and the state DEC plans to take more samples and scan field and soil areas there for more radioactive elements.

If approved in the Legislature, the resolution would fund the unit — responsible for drilling monitoring wells to evaluate groundwater pollution across the county at sites like the former Grumman facility in Calverton — using money from the water quality fund, a fund established by a voter - approved, quarter - penny sales tax.

This was based on results from samples from Entergy's groundwater monitoring program taken January 26 that identified elevated levels of tritium in three monitoring wells out of several dozen.

Scientists typically monitor groundwater reserves using wells, but this method fails to provide the global picture of how water levels are changing.

A two - year study of fracking wells in Los Angeles, conducted by consultants Cardno Entrix and funded by the oil industry, monitored 15 environmental factors before and after fracking, including groundwater chemistry, vibration at the surface and at depth, and methane release.

«Our research has global relevance as well, because this new technology provides a quick and cheap alternative to having to install numerous boreholes for groundwater monitoring.»

The agency tested the water in the shallow wells that tap the groundwater above the 169 gas - producing wells in the field; in two municipal wells in the town; and in several surface and deep wells that it drilled for monitoring purposes.

The team also is seeking additional funding to begin monitoring groundwater wells near wastewater injection wells, where fracking brine is deposited after the wells are drilled.

There is also the problem of not knowing just how much groundwater the state has and exactly how much is being pumped, which the state just last year instituted measures to better monitor.

«Similar to how non-invasive medical imaging has reduced the need for invasive, exploratory surgeries, geophysical monitoring techniques, such as SSIP, allow us to monitor large volumes of aquifer sediments without having to drill groundwater wells, which saves money and disturbs less land,» said project lead Dr. Kenneth Williams, LBNL.

On April 9, Entergy confirmed an increase in groundwater tritium concentration in two monitoring wells located near Indian Point Unit 2.

The monitoring wells it drilled to check have themselves contaminated groundwater in some places there.

A lifelong advocate for our coast, Williams championed required testing of groundwater before, during, and after hydraulic fracturing, which was included in California's regulations on fracking, and authored legislation to expand groundwater monitoring to other types of injection wells to protect underground sources of drinking water from oil and gas wastewater disposal.

It is difficult to develop well - informed solutions without an understanding of how and why groundwater levels are changing — and in many states, groundwater measurement and monitoring are limited and incomplete.

«It's important to note that these CCR [Coal Combustion Residuals] monitoring wells are located immediately next to the CCR unit (basin, landfill, etc.) and do not reflect groundwater conditions farther away or off plant property where neighbors are located,» Erin Culbert a spokesperson for Duke Energy, said.