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Title: Ground-water data for the Nevada Test Site and selected other areas in South-Central Nevada, 1992--1993

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/114657· OSTI ID:114657

The US Geological Survey, in support of the US Department of Energy Environmental Restoration and Hydrologic Resources Management Programs, collects and compiles hydrogeologic data to aid in characterizing the regional and local ground-water flow systems underlying the Nevada Test Site and vicinity. This report presents selected ground-water data collected from wells and test holes at and in the vicinity of the Nevada Test Site. Depth-to-water measurements were made during water year 1993 at 55 sites at the Nevada Test Site and 43 regional sites in the vicinity of the Nevada Test Site. Depth to water ranged from 87.7 to 674.6 meters below land surface at the Nevada Test Site and from 6.0 to 444.7 meters below land surface at sites in the vicinity of the Nevada Test Site. Depth-to-water measurements were obtained using the wire-line, electric-tape, air-line, and steel-tape devices. Total measured ground-water withdrawal from the Nevada Test Site during the 1993 calendar year was 1,888.04 million liters. Annual ground-water withdrawals from 14 wells ranged from 0.80 million to 417.20 million liters. Tritium concentrations from four samples at the Nevada Test Site and from three samples in the vicinity of the Nevada Test Site collected during water year 1993 ranged from near 0 to 27,676.0 becquerels per liter and from near 0 to 3.9 becquerels per liter, respectively.

Research Organization:
US Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Department of the Interior, Washington, DC (United States); USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AI08-86NV10583
OSTI ID:
114657
Report Number(s):
USGS-OFR-95-160; ON: DE96000244; TRN: 95:023159
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English