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Main Title Investigations of the Groundwater System and Simulation of Regional Groundwater Flow for North Penn Area 7 Superfund Site, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Author L. A. Senior ; D. J. Goode
CORP Author Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
Year Published 2013
Report Number USGS-SIR-2013-5045
Stock Number PB2013-107276
Additional Subjects Groundwater ; Water flow ; Pennsylvania ; Hydrogeology ; Geology ; Aquifers ; Water wells ; Contaminants ; Volatile Organic Compounds(VOCs) ; North Penn Area 7 Superfund Site ; Montgomery County(Pennsylvania)
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NTIS  PB2013-107276 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Groundwater in the vicinity of several industrial facilities in Upper Gwynedd Township and vicinity, Montgomery County, in southeast Pennsylvania has been shown to be contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the most common of which is the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE). The 2-square-mile area was placed on the National Priorities List as the North Penn Area 7 Superfund site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) in 1989. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted geophysical logging, aquifer testing, and water-level monitoring, and measured streamflows in and near North Penn Area 7 from fall 2000 through fall 2006 in a technical assistance study for the USEPA to develop an understanding of the hydrogeologic framework in the area as part of the USEPA Remedial Investigation. In addition, the USGS developed a groundwater-flow computer model based on the hydrogeologic framework to simulate regional groundwater flow and to estimate directions of groundwater flow and pathways of groundwater contaminants.