Water Quality Publications & Reports

Environmental Surveillance

Environmental Surveillance Reports

These annual reports summarize environmental data that comply with applicable federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations, Executive Orders, and DOE policies. Additional data, beyond the minimum required, are gathered and reported as part of the Laboratory's efforts to ensure public safety and to monitor environmental quality at and near the Laboratory.

• 2007 ESR: LA-14369-ENV
• All Chapters (pdf)
• Executive Summary (pdf)
• Chapters 1-2 (pdf)
• Chapters 3-5 (pdf)
• Chapters 6-9 (pdf)
• Appendices (pdf)
• Supplemental data table files (zip)
• All Chapters and supplemental data (zip)
• 2006 ESR: LA-14341-ENV
• All Chapters (pdf)
• Executive Summary (pdf)
• Chapters 1-2 (pdf)
• Chapters 3-5 (pdf)
• Chapters 6-10 (pdf)
• Supplemental data table files (zip)
• All Chapters and supplemental data (zip)
• 2005 ESR: LA-14304-ENV
• All Chapters (pdf)
• Executive Summary (pdf)
• Chapters 1-2 (pdf)
• Chapters 3-5 (pdf)
• Chapters 6-9 (pdf)
• Supplemental data table files (zip)
• All Chapters and supplemental data (zip)
• 2004 ESR: LA-14239-ENV
• All Chapters (pdf)
• Executive Summary (pdf)
• Front Cover-Chapter 3 (pdf)
• Chapters 4-6 (pdf)
• Chapter 7-Back Cover (pdf)
• Supplemental data table files (zip)
• All Chapters and supplemental data (zip)
• 2003 ESR: LA-14162-ENV
• All Chapters (pdf)
• Supplemental data table files (zip)
• All Chapters and supplemental data (zip)
• 2002 ESR: LA-14085-ENV
• All Chapters (pdf)
• 2001 ESR: LA-13979-ENV
• All Chapters (pdf)
• 1999 ESR: LA-13775-ENV (pdf)
• Overview (pdf)
• 1998 ESR: LA-13633-ENV (pdf)
• Overview (pdf)
• 1997 ESR: LA-13487-ENV
• Chapters 1-4 (pdf)
• Chapters 5-6 (pdf)
• 1996 ESR: LA-13343-ENV
• Chapters 1-4 (pdf)
• Chapters 5-6 (pdf)
• 1995 ESR: LA-13210-ENV
• Chapters 1-4 (pdf)
• Chapters 5-6 (pdf)
• 1994 ESR: LA-13047-ENV
• Chapters 1-4 (pdf)
• Chapters 5-8 (pdf)
• 1993 ESR: LA-12973-ENV (pdf)
• 1992 ESR: LA-12764-ENV (pdf)
• 1991 ESR: LA-12572-ENV (pdf)
• 1990 ESR: LA-12271-MS (pdf)
• 1989 ESR: LA-12000-ENV (pdf)
• 1988 ESR: LA-11628-ENV (pdf)
• 1987 ESR: LA-11306-ENV (pdf)
• 1986 ESR: LA-10992-ENV (pdf)
• 1985 ESR: LA-10721-ENV (pdf)
• 1984 ESR: LA-10421-ENV (pdf)
• 1983 ESR: LA-10100-ENV (pdf)
• 1982 ESR: LA-9762-ENV (pdf)
• 1981 ESR: LA-9349-ENV (pdf)
• 1980 ESR: LA-8810-ENV (pdf)
• 1979 ESR: LA-8200-ENV (pdf)
• 1978 ESR: LA-7800-ENV (pdf)
• 1977 ESR: LA-7263-MS (pdf)
• 1976 ESR: LA-6801-MS (pdf)
• 1975 ESR: LA-6321-MS (pdf)
• 1974 ESR: LA-5977-PR (pdf)
• 1973 ESR: LA-5586 (pdf)
• 1972 ESR: LA-5184 (pdf)
• 1971 ESR: LA-4871-MS
• January - June (pdf)
• July - December (pdf)
• 1970 ESR: LA-4672-MS (pdf)

Plans/Analyses

Plans & Analyses

These reports focus on individual water quality issues that are investigated and evaluated by water quality specialists at LANL as they become identified.

• Chromium Documents
• Chromium Interim Measures Report
• Chromium Investigation Work Plan
• Drilling Work Plan for Nature and Extent of Chromium Contamination in Groundwater Investigations
• Fate and Transport Modeling Report for Chromium Contamination from Sandia Canyon
• Fate and Transport Investigations Update for Chromium Contamination in Sandia Canyon
• Los Alamos Site Monitoring Area 2 Interim Measures Monitoring Plan
• Evaluation of the Suitability of Wells Near Technical Area 16 for Monitoring Contaminant Releases from Consolidated Unit 16-021(c)-99
• Gauging Stations Map
• 2008 Interim Facility-Wide Groundwater Monitoring Plan
• 2007 Interim Facility-wide Groundwater Monitoring Plan
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Groundwater Protection Program Plan, Schedule Update
• Groundwater Background Investigation Report, Revision 3
• Groundwater Background Investigation Report, Revision 2
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix E
• Groundwater Wells and Springs Map
• Hydrogeologic Synthesis Report
• Hydrogeologic Work Plan
• Interim Measure Work Plan to Mitigate Contaminated Sediment Transport in Los Alamos and Pueblo Canyons
• Well Network Evaluations
• Los Alamos and Pueblo Canyons Groundwater Monitoring Well Network Evaluation and Recommendations
• Mortandad Canyon Groundwater Monitoring Well Network Evaluation
• Technical Area 54 Well Evaluation and Network Recommendations, Revision 1
• Technical Area 54 Well Evaluation and Network Recommendations, Revision 2
• Well Rehabilitation
• Well Rehabilitation Pilot Project
• Well Rehabilitation Sample Analysis
• Work Plan for R-Well Rehabilitation and Replacement, Revision 2
• Well R-12 Rehabilitation and Conversion Summary Report
• Well R-14 Rehabilitation and Conversion Summary Report
• Well R-14 Rehabilitation and Conversion Summary Report, Revision 1
• Well R-20 Rehabilitation and Conversion Summary Report
• Well R-32 Rehabilitation and Conversion Summary Report Revision 1
• Well R-33 Rehabilitation and Conversion Summary Report
• Well Completion Reports
• Well Completion Report for R-25b
• Completion Report for Regional Aquifer Well R-36
• Completion Report for Well R-25c
• Investigation Report for Pajarito Canyon
• Well Screen Analysis Report, Revision 1
• Drilling Work Plan for Well R-25c
• Drilling Work Plan for Regional Monitoring Well Near MDA C
• Drilling Work Plan for Los Alamos and Pueblo Canyons Groundwater Monitoring Wells
• Monthly Groundwater Data Reviews
• Monthly Water Screening Action Level Exceedance Reports
• Periodic Monitoring Reports (Groundwater)

Publications

Selected Bibliography of Environmental Studies on Mortandad Canyon

• Baltz, E.H., J.H. Abrahams, and W.D. Purtymun, 1963, Preliminary Report on the Geology and Hydrology of Mortandad Canyon near Los Alamos, New Mexico, with Reference to Disposal of Liquid Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Open File Report, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Baltz et al. 1963, 0024
• Dander, D. C., Unsaturated Groundwater flow beneath Upper Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-UR-98-4759, October 1998.
• Devaurs, M., and W.D. Purtymun, 1985, Hydrologic Characteristics of the Alluvial Aquifers in Mortandad, Canada del Buey and Pajarito Canyons, LA-UR-85-4002
• Environmental Surveillance Group, "Radionuclide Uptake by Vegetable Crops in the Mortandad Canyon Garden Plot During 1976", Environmental Surveillance at Los Alamos During 1977, LA-7263-MS, pp. 38
• Geddis, A.M., 1992, Preliminary Modeling of Moisture Movement in the tuff Beneath Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR-92-2577 For abstract, see: http://flashpoint.lanl.gov/
• Hakonson, T. E., J. W. Nyhan, and W. D. Purtymun, Accumulation and transport of soil plutonium in liquid waste discharge areas at Los Alamos, p. 175-189 in Transuranium Nuclides in the Environment, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1976.
• Koenig, E. D., and McLin, S. G., Application of a lumped-parameter model toward understanding the behavior of the Mortandad Canyon perched alluvial system, Los Alamos, New Mexico, unpublished report, New Mexico Tech., 45 pp., 1992.
• LANL 1997: Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Work Plan for Mortandad Canyon," Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-UR-97-3291 (September 1997).
• Longmire, P., D. Broxton, W. Stone, B. Newman, R. Gilkeson, J. Marin, D. Vaniman, D. Counce, D. Rogers, R. Hull, S. McLin, and R. Warren, Characterization Well R-15 Completion Report, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-UR-00-4139, For abstract, see: http://flashpoint.lanl.gov/
• Mullen, K. I., M. A. Mullen, and D. B. Rogers, Perched Zone Monitoring Well 1995 Analytical Results, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-UR-00-949, December 1997.
• Nyhan, J. W., F. R. Miera, and R. J. Peters, Distribution of plutonium in soil particle size fractions of liquid effluent-receiving areas at Los Alamos, Journal of Environmental Quality, 5, p. 50-56, 1976.
• Polzer, W.L., and E.H. Essington, 1983, Mobility of Waste Actinides in the Shallow Aquifer of Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Rough Draft
• Purtymun, W.D. 1964, Progress Report on the Hydrology of Mortandad Canyon, Disposal System for Treated Low-level Liquid Radioactive Wastes; July 1961 to June 1963, Administrative Release Albuquerque, New Mexico; Purtymun 1964, 1083
• Purtymun, W.D. 1967, The Disposal of Industrial Effluents in Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, Administration Release
• Purtymun, W.D. 1974, Dispersion and Movement of Tritium in a Shallow Aquifer in Mortandad Canyon at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, LA-5716-MS
• Purtymun, W. D., Geohydrology of the Pajarito Plateau, with reference to quality of water, 1949-1972, 344 pp., Los Alamos National Laboratory Informal Report, December 1975.
• Purtymun, W. D., Geologic and hydrologic records of observation wells, test holes, test wells, supply wells, springs, and surface water stations in the Los Alamos area, 339 pp., Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-12883-MS, January 1995.
  http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00285728.pdf (p.[i]-xix) 71KB
  http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00285729.pdf (p.1-136) 1.5MB
  http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00285730.pdf (p.137-228) 1.6MB
  http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00285731.pdf (p.229-339) 935KB
• Purtymun, W.D., J.R. Buchholz, and T.E. Hakonson, 1975, Chemical Quality of Effluents and their Influence on Water Quality in Mortandad Canyon, LA-UR-75-2076
• Purtymun, W.D., M.N. Maes, and R. Peters, 1984, "Distribution of Moisture, Tritium and Plutonium in the Alluvium, Aquifer and Underlying Tuff in Mortandad Canyon," Environmental Surveillance at Los Alamos During 1984, LA-10100-ENV, pp. 69-71
• Purtymun, W.D., W.R. Hansen, and R.J. Peters, 1983, Radiochemical Quality of Water in the Shallow Aquifer in Mortandad Canyon 1967 - 1978, LA-9675-MS
• Rogers, D. B., Impact of tritium disposal on surface water and groundwater at Los Alamos National Laboratory through 1997, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-13465-SR, July 1998. For abstract, see: http://flashpoint.lanl.gov/
• Rogers, D. B., Impact of strontium-90 on surface water and groundwater at Los Alamos National Laboratory through 2000, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-13855-MS, December 2001. For abstract, see: http://flashpoint.lanl.gov/
• Stone, W. J., Preliminary results of modeling the shallow aquifer, Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 14 pp. plus figures and tables, Draft report, NMED DOE Oversight Program, February, 1995.
• Steen, C.R. 1979, The Mortandad Style of Rock Art, Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico, LA-UR-79-1259
• Stoker, A.K.,W.D. Purtymun, S. McLin, and M. Maes, 1991, Extent of Saturation in Mortandad Canyon, LA-UR-91-1660
• Rogers, D. B., and B. M. Gallaher, The Unsaturated Hydraulic Characteristics of the Bandelier Tuff, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-12968-MS, September 1995
  http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00326205.pdf (p. i-xi, 1-75) 1.7MB
  http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00326206.pdf (p. Appendices A-F) 1.5MB
  http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00326207.pdf (p. Appendices G) 90KB