Subsurface Point-Source Contamination
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Site B is a small but active oil production site with several pump jacks like this one. A multidisciplinary team of USGS scientists and their partners are studying the long-term and short-term effects of hydrocarbons and the constituents of produced water on the local environment a two sites (A and B) on the shores of Skiatook Lake, Okla -- from the Osage-Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research Project
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The Toxics Program conducts intensive field investigations to study common classes of subsurface
point-source contamination. (more information)
Complete listing of point-source investigations and projects >>
Other Subsurface Point-Source Investigations
Subsurface Point-Source Contamination Information
- Index of Bibliographies from Point-Source Investigations
- Index of Photo Galleries for Point-Source Investigations
- Crosscutting Topics Related to Point-Source Contamination
- Fact Sheets on Point-Source Contamination
- USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, 2010: USGS Fact Sheet 2010-3011
- Bioremediation--Nature's way to a cleaner environment: USGS Fact Sheet FS-O54-95.
- Borehole-radar methods--Tools for characterization of fractured rock: USGS Fact Sheet FS-054-00.
- Cape Cod Toxic Substances Hydrology research site--Physical, chemical, and biological processes that control the fate of contaminants in ground water: USGS Fact Sheet 2006-3096.
- Characterizing ground-water chemistry and hydraulic properties of fractured-rock aquifers using the multifunction bedrock-aquifer transportable testing tool (BAT3): USGS Fact Sheet FS-075-01.
- Contaminant sorption by soil and bed sediment--Is there a difference?: USGS Fact Sheet 087-00.
- Contamination in fractured-rock aquifers--Research at the former Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, New Jersey: USGS Fact Sheet 2007-3074.
- Fractured-rock aquifers--Understanding an increasingly important source of water: USGS Fact Sheet 112-02.
- Ground water contamination by crude oil near Bemidji, Minnesota: USGS Fact Sheet FS-084-98.
- Ground-water recharge in humid areas of the United States--A summary of Ground-Water Resources Program studies, 2003-2006: USGS Fact Sheet 2007-3007.
- Is septic waste affecting drinking water from shallow domestic wells along the Platte River in eastern Nebraska?: USGS Fact Sheet 072-03.
- The Mirror Lake Fractured-Rock Research Site--A multidisciplinary research effort in characterizing ground-water flow and chemical transport in fractured rock: USGS Fact Sheet FS-138-95.
- Naturally occurring radioactive minerals (NORM) in produced water and oil-field equipment--An issue for the energy industry: USGS Fact Sheet FS-142-99.
- The Norman Landfill Environmental Research Site--What happens to the waste in landfills?: USGS Fact Sheet 040-03.
- Robowell--Providing accurate and current water-level and water-quality data in real time for protecting ground-water resources: USGS Fact Sheet FS-053-02.
- Simulating contaminant attenuation, double-porosity exchange, and water age in aquifers using MOC3D: USGS Fact Sheet 086-99.
- Simulating transport of volatile organic compounds in the unsaturated zone using the computer model R-UNSAT: USGS Fact Sheet FS-019-98.
- USGS research on saline waters co-produced with energy resources: USGS Fact Sheet FS-003-97.
- Waste burial in arid environments--Application of information from a field laboratory in the Mojave Desert, southern Nevada: USGS Fact Sheet FS-179-95.
Meetings and Conferences
New Publications
Upcoming Publications
- Volatile organic compounds in the unsaturated zone from radioactive wastes: Baker, R.J., Andraski, B.J., Stonestrom, D.A., and Luo, W., Journal of Environmental Quality, doi:10.2135/jeq2011.0480 (IN PRESS).
- Microbial degradation of chloroethenes in the fractured rock aquifer at NAWC Trenton under unamended and enhanced conditions: Bradley, P.M., U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report (IN PRESS).
- Microbial mineralization of cis-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride as a component of natural attenuation of chloroethene contaminants under conditions identified in the field as anoxic: Bradley, P.M., U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report (IN PRESS).
- Effects of thermal heating on aquifer microorganisms: Chapelle, F.H., Lacombe, P.J., and Bradley, P.M., Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) (IN PRESS).
- Volatile fuel hydrocarbons and oxygenates in the environment (Section 9.12): Cozzarelli, I.M., and Baehr, A.L., in Heinrich, D.H., and Karl, K.T., eds., Environmental Geochemistry, Lollar, B.S., ed., in Treatise on Geochemistry, New York, Elsevier Science, v. 9 (IN PRESS).
New Publications
- Threshold amounts of organic carbon needed to initiate reductive dechlorination in groundwater systems: Chapelle, F.H., Thomas, L.K., Bradley, P.M., Rectanus, H.V., and Widdowson, M.A., 2012, Remediation Journal, v. 22, no. 3, p. 19-28, doi:10.1002/rem.21318.
- Perils of categorical thinking: "Oxic/anoxic" conceptual model in environmental remediation: Bradley, P.M., 2012, Remediation Journal, v. 22, no. 3, p. 9-18, doi:10.1002/rem.21317.
- Dissolved oxygen as an indicator of bioavailable dissolved organic carbon in groundwater: Chapelle, F.H., Bradley, P.M., McMahon, P.B., Kaiser, K., and Benner, R., 2012, Ground Water, v. 50, no. 2, p. 230-241, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00835.x.
- Impact of fluorochrome stains used to study bacterial transport in shallow aquifers on motility and chemotaxis of Pseudomonas species: Toepfer, J.A., Ford, R.M., Metge, D., and Harvey, R.W., 2012, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, p. n/a-n/a, doi:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01355.x.
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