Monitoring Well

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Monitoring Well: - 1. A well used to obtain water quality samples or measure groundwater levels. 2. A well drilled at a hazardous waste management facility or Superfund site to collect ground-water samples for the purpose of physical, chemical, or biological analysis to determine the amounts, types, and distribution of contaminants in the groundwater beneath the site.
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Eight arrested as part of insider trading probe  -  Jul 29, 2008
AFPThe regulator is toughening its enforcement procedures and improving oversight of the financial markets by upgrading its transaction monitoring well as

Test results doubted by West Divide resident  -  Jul 31, 2008
Citizen Telegram,...“At the very least, I think they should find out for sure what this stuff is and put in a groundwater monitoring well on our property,� Bracken said.

Average July rain brings varying relief to the area  -  Jul 31, 2008
Gainesville Sun,..."The water level in a monitoring well near High Springs was below the fifth percentile, which means that 95 percent of the readings since the well was first

Tests show high levels of nitrate  -  Jul 16, 2008
Walkertown Herald Times,A monitoring well on Concession 1 in the former Brant Township has registered higher levels of nitrate, the Grey Bruce Health Unit reported last week.

Golf course suspected of tainting VA groundwater  -  Jul 25, 2008
Water Technology Online,The city’s monitoring well test results, based on average readings from three monitoring wells, show arsenic at eight times the federal drinking water

Wareham Water District presentation  -  Jul 10, 2008
Wareham Courier,Samples are taken twice a year from both the production and monitoring well sites. Over seven years of sampling, several compounds have been detected at

Latest groundwater woes plague Grand Island Christian School  -  Jul 17, 2008
Grand Island Independent,Grand Island Public Works Director Steve Riehle said the groundwater at a monitoring well at 18th and Broadwell -- which is about a block south of the

Walkerton area well water could need testing  -  Jul 15, 2008
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre,The Grey Bruce Health Unit says water samples from a monitoring well in the Vicinity of Walkerton has shown higher than allowable levels of sodium and

Tests will sniff homes over plume for toxins  -  Jul 8, 2008
Tampabay.com,The DEP is also telling Raytheon to install a monitoring well at Azalea Elementary School "to verify that the contamination has not migrated westward onto

Nielsen Environmental Field School announces fall 2008 course schedule  -  Jul 14, 2008
Environmental Expert (press release),California; October 29-31, Las Cruces, New Mexico), Ground-Water Monitoring Well Design, Construction and Development (October 27-28, Las Cruces,

French's Landfill cleanup - 26 years and still counting  -  Jul 10, 2008
Brick Township Bulletin,Brick has borne the brunt of the cleanup and monitoring-well costs. The township paid $500000 a year for years to test the roughly 67 monitoring wells that

Clarke supervisors assign water inquiry  -  Jul 16, 2008
Northern Virginia Daily,Supervisors indicated at the time that the county's groundwater monitoring well at the state arboretum at Blandy Experimental Farm was showing water levels

Home in Columbia First of its Kind  -  Jul 13, 2008
KOMU-TV,...in student and faculty research projects at Mizzou. Right now there are projects underway for monitoring well-being and medication administration.

Rate goes up for trash containers, compactors  -  Jul 23, 2008
Brunswick Times Gazette,The supervisors authorized the transfer of $4706 from the FY08 Capital Improvement Project - Old Landfill Groundwater Monitoring Well budget to the FY08

Today in History: July 23  -  Jul 22, 2008
Sun Shopper,Prescott city officials agreed Wednesday to sink a groundwater monitoring well at the city's landfill operation to comply with Arizona Department of Health

DHEC collecting more well water samples  -  Jul 22, 2008
Anderson Independent Mail,After tritium was found in one monitoring well at the Catawba site, tests were conducted at a total of 25 public and private water wells near the site last

DEQ monitoring well fire  -  Nov 21, 2007
Shreveport Times,By Mike Hasten BATON ROUGE – The Department of Environmental Quality is keeping close watch on a gas well fire still raging along Interstate 10 a week after

Polk groundwater may be okay without 7-acre min. lots  -  Nov 30, 2007
Tryon Daily Bulletin,According to state data, a monitoring well in Columbus showed that fluctuation. The water level in the well rose to about 27 feet below the surface in 2000

Report says compound still in SL wells  -  Nov 18, 2007
The Morning Sun,Monitoring well No. 30I is located approximately 300 feet from city well No. 1 and approximately 250 feet from city well No. 4. This year, pcbsa samples

DEQ calls for landfill closure by July 2009  -  Nov 30, 2007
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com,The draft permit also calls for Grabhorn to conduct gas monitoring on the perimeter of the landfill footprint and dig a groundwater monitoring well on the

Water Working Group gets down to business  -  Nov 12, 2007
Molokai Times,Oki then made the case for a deep monitoring well near the Kawela area on Molokai's east end. There is currently one monitoring well on Molokai.

Winter offers little hope for regional drought relief  -  Nov 5, 2007
Watauga Democrat,The closest drought monitoring well to Watauga County is in the Beaver Creek community of Ashe County, and data collected there suggests the water table has

RAB meeting slated  -  Nov 29, 2007
Enid News & Eagle,...construction projects on or near installation restoration program sites, class II permit modification for monitoring well abandonment and a five-year

Study recommends leaving oil under creek  -  Nov 8, 2007
Lompoc Record,The report concludes there is no crude oil in the creek water nor in groundwater wells and monitoring wells drilled nearby, although one monitoring well

Mining-waste cleanup begins near Carterville  -  Nov 7, 2007
Joplin Globe,After the pit was filled, a monitoring well was placed in the center of the pit. The levels of zinc in the well spiked for about a month or so after the pit

Gary Hanson: Watersheds affect the quality of local water  -  Nov 6, 2007
Shreveport Times,...to improve water resources (Water Resources Committee of Northwest Louisiana and Caddo Parish monitoring well project) and combat invasive plants.

Copley Township concerned with chemical vapors in condo basements  -  Nov 5, 2007
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com,In 1999, the Ohio EPA deemed the site needed no further remediation, but results from a monitoring well in November 2000 showed the contamination had

Part of Dredging Project Halted  -  Nov 6, 2007
WNEP-TV,..."I think we could have won more but I am satisfied, but the water problem was one of the biggest problems here and the judge saw that one monitoring well is

How to unpack your old self  -  Nov 20, 2007
Expatica Netherlands,...monitoring well-being and ensuring a seamless relocation, some of you may seek a more personal but neutral support with whom to share your anxieties.

College submits proposal for environmental remediation  -  Nov 13, 2007
Skidmore College News,One bedrock monitoring well was installed at a location assumed to be downgradient of the area, and no mercury was detected in the groundwater sample

Site plan OK’d for Piedmont’s first phase  -  Nov 7, 2007
Business Gazette,He said Toll Brothers would be charged with monitoring well water for at least one year after the last unit is built on the first phase of the plan.

Spokane trying to find source of diesel in test well  -  Aug 23, 2007
KXLY,On Monday, workers found very low levels of diesel hydrocarbons at a monitoring well at Marietta and Denver. “The monitoring well measures contaminants in

Lawyer: Ask why cleanup stopped  -  Aug 23, 2007
Cooperstown Crier,...petroleum hydrocarbons at 4843 parts per billion were detected in a monitoring well located in a village-owned parking lot behind the former station.

Groundwater monitoring at waste plant must improve  -  Aug 16, 2007
Waterloo Record,The 2006 annual report for the wet-dry facility found one monitoring well demonstrated an increase in Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen, or TKN.

Dry spell means dry wells  -  Aug 16, 2007
Baltimore Sun,...according to Westminster Well Drilling Inc. The water level in Carroll County's 310-foot monitoring well in Union Mills is approaching an all-time low,

City resumes testing at wet plant  -  Aug 22, 2007
Guelph Mercury (subscription),In June, the ministry asked the city to add nitrate testing once again to its roster after at least one monitoring well at the now-closed compost plant site

Appeals court reverses Griffin Industries suit against local ...  -  Aug 24, 2007
Dublin Courier Herald,...the administrative law judge noticed that American Proteins, like Griffin, had received high pollutant readings from a monitoring well.

Low Groundwater Levels Spark Worries in Carroll County  -  Aug 17, 2007
MyFox Washington DC,Data from the US Geological Survey shows the water level at the county's 310-foot monitoring well in Union Bridge is close to an all-time low.

Large areas of Wayne still under drought conditions  -  Aug 4, 2007
Goldsboro News Argus,The most recent data from the Grantham drought monitoring well shows water levels stumbling back into the low ranges of normal, owed to intermittent July

Western Water Conservation Grants Fund 44 Projects  -  Aug 2, 2007
Environment News ServiceThe Water 2025 funding will cover three acres of recharge basins, fencing, one monitoring well and flow meter. The project is estimated to save 3650

State officials blast Tallevast cleanup plans  -  Aug 2, 2007
Bradenton Herald,DEP is asking Lockheed to identify the location and contaminant of concern for each monitoring well or private well the company believes is not associated

Meridian Petroleum Provides Operational Update  -  Aug 2, 2007
OilVoice (press release),The Company is monitoring well performance closely and will continue to clean-up the well bore over the coming weeks. In respect of the further development

Unfinished business  -  Aug 22, 2007
Blue Springs Examiner,...warning monitoring well network for three years, authorizing time extensions, change orders and future minor change orders in, not to exceed $7830.

Everybody's ready for the rain to end  -  Aug 8, 2007
Grand Island Independent,Riehle said a groundwater monitoring well on Stolley Park Road between Arthur and Blaine set a record at the end of May. At the end of July,

Mallard Ridge Landfill keeps its good side for the community  -  Aug 13, 2007
Janesville Gazette,Mallard Ridge also has installed more groundwater monitoring wells than required by law, Logterman said. If a nearby resident asked for a monitoring well,

Wells shut down as a precaution  -  Aug 25, 2007
The Spokesman Review,However, two tests found diesel in a separate monitoring well about two blocks from the pumping stations that were closed. "I don't think that these very

INDEPENDENCE CITY COUNCIL ACTION  -  Aug 7, 2007
Blue Springs Examiner,US Geological Survey to provide testing of the Water Department early warning monitoring well network for three years for the full sum of $78300,

Gearhart water right back on tap, for now  -  Aug 9, 2007
Seaside Signal,McNally said those amounts could change depending on what the monitoring well test results show. Despite the reduced amounts requested the city is still

City still waiting for National Guard property  -  Aug 8, 2007
Dothan Eagle,...several monitoring wells came back negative for contaminants, but a monitoring well close to the actual building still show levels of contamination.

Stonewall showcases top equality employers  -  Aug 15, 2007
Diversity News,...end of July and praised organisations such as JP Morgan and Transport for London (TfL) for implementing and monitoring well ordered diversity policies.

FOLLOW-UP  -  Aug 4, 2007
Los Alamos Monitor,...$251870 reached in June 2007 was related to LANL's failure to report significant increases in chromium contamination in a monitoring well in late 2004.

County will discuss burn ban today  -  Aug 12, 2007
Kerrville Daily Times,The court also will consider a request from the Headwaters Groundwater Conservation District to drill a Lower Trinity monitoring well in the Kerrville South

Water main break douses Brookline homes  -  Jul 27, 2007
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,Terra Testing, a company based in Meadowlands, was drilling to install a monitoring well, said owner Michael Tiani. The company had secured required permits




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