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December 2004 On-Post Quarterly Groundwater Monitoring Report

Section 6 - Summary

Results for PCE and TCE in CS-4 were below the MCL after being above the MCL in the June 2004 event.

MCLs were exceeded for one or more of PCE, TCE, and cis-1,2-DCE, in wells CS‑MW16‑LGR (formerly well CS-16), CS-MW16-CC, CS-MW1-LGR, CS‑MW1‑LGR field duplicate, and CS-D.

Monitoring wells CS-4, CS-MW1-BS, CS-MW2-LGR, CS-MW5-LGR, and CS‑MW10-LGR had detections of COCs at concentrations below applicable MCLs but above the RL (Table 6-1).

Monitoring wells CS-2, CS-I, CS-MWG-LGR, CS-MWH-LGR, CS-MW1-CC, CS‑MW2‑CC, CS-MW4-LGR, CS-MW6-LGR, CS-MW6-BS, CS-MW6-CC, CS‑MW7-LGR, CS-MW7-CC, CS-MW9-LGR, CS-MW9-BS, CS‑MW9-CC, CS‑MW10-CC, CS-MW12-LGR, CS-MW18-LGR, and the CS-MW18-LGR field duplicate had no VOC analytes detected above either the applicable MDL or RL.

Drinking water wells CS-1 and CS-9 had no VOC detections in December 2004. Well CS-10 had a detection of chloroform below the RL.

An average increase in water levels of 62.91 feet occurred between September and December 2004. Between September 6, 2004 and December 1, 2004 WS-N reported 20.68 inches of rain and WS-S measured 22.95 inches of rain.

The LGR groundwater potentiometric surface map (Figure 2-1) for December 2004 shows groundwater flow to be variable throughout the facility. Apparent groundwater flow is to the southeast and southwest in the southwest corner of the facility. Flow in other areas of CSSA is also variable, with higher groundwater elevations at the central portion of CSSA. Groundwater extraction from both on- and off-post drinking water supply wells and the pumping at CS-MW16-CC, varying rates of recharge from rain events, and the inherent complexity of groundwater flow in a fractured limestone aquifer, all contribute to difficulties in interpreting the potentiometric surface at CSSA.

The LGR potentiometric surface map near Building 90 indicated a groundwater flow to the southeast and southwest, and the CC potentiometric surface map near Building 90 indicated a groundwater flow to the east and southeast in December 2004.

Metals were sampled in December 2004 in drinking water wells and no concentrations exceeded the applicable MCLs and/or AL.

In December 2004, vinyl chloride was found in wells CS-MW12-BS and CS-MW16-CC. Historical vinyl chloride detections include:

Date

Wells IDs

Concentrations

December 2002

CS-MW9-BS

TR

March 2003

CS-D, CS-MW1-LGR, CS-MW2-LGR

CS-MW4-LGR, CS-MW9-BS, CS-MW12-BS,

CS-MW19-LGR

TR

TR

TR

June 2003

CS MW1 BS, CS MW12 BS, CS MW1CC

TR

September 2003

CS D, CS MW1 BS

TR

September 2003

CS MW16 CC

1.3 μg/L

December 2003

CS MW12 CC

TR

June 2004

CS-MW 12-BS

TR

September 2004

CS MW12 BS, CS-MW16-CC

TR

December 2004

CS-MW12-BS, CS-MW16-CC

TR

(TR = below the RL and F-flagged)

Westbayzones that have been historically dry during sampling that were able to be sampled this quarter include:

Well ID

Date Sampled

Concentrations

CS-WB01-UGR-01

11/18/04

PCE 6.58 μg/L

CS-WB01-UGR-01

12/2/04

PCE 1.5 μg/L, TCE 1.4 μg/L

CS-WB02-UGR-01

11/18/04

PCE 7.02 μg/L, TCE 2.26 μg/L

CS-WB03-UGR-01

11/18/04

PCE 13,900 μg/L, TCE 215 μg/L, cis-1,2-DCE 5.32 μg/L

CS-WB03-UGR-01

11/24/04

PCE 9,170 μg/L, TCE 294 μg/L, cis-1,2-DCE 7.49 μg/L

CS-WB03-UGR-01

11/30/04

PCE 9,640 μg/L, TCE 227 μg/L, cis-1,2-DCE 7.35 μg/L

CS-WB03-UGR-01

12/29/04

PCE 13,400 μg/L, TCE 321 μg/L, cis-1,2-DCE 7.78 μg/L

CS-WB03-LGR-01

11/18/04

PCE 560 μg/L, TCE 9.8 μg/L

CS-WB03-LGR-02

12/29/04

PCE 363 μg/L, TCE 7.74 μg/L

CS-WB04-UGR-01

11/18/04

PCE 9.51 μg/L