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HITTING THE BULL'S-EYE IN GROUNDWATER SAMPLING
Citation:
Powell, R. M. AND R W. Puls*. HITTING THE BULL'S-EYE IN GROUNDWATER SAMPLING. POLLUTION ENGINEERING, 51-54, (1997).
Impact/Purpose:
Objective is to provide new procedures to help avoid the off-target data provided by traditional sampling methods.
Description:
Many of the commonly-used groundwater sampling techniques and procedures have resulted from methods developed for water supply investigations. These methods have persisted, even though the monitoring goals may have changed from water supply development to contaminant source and plume delineation. Unfortunately, the use of these methods can result in an incorrect understanding of the contaminant concentrations and system geochemistry, often overestimating or underestimating the true values or the extent of a plume.
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