Practical handbook of environmental site characterization and ground-water monitoring 2nd ed

Contents 1. Regulatory Mandates for Ground-Water Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Kathryn S. Makeig and David M. Nielsen 2. Environmental Site Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 David M. Nielsen, Gillian L. Nielsen, and Lynne M. Preslo 3. Monitoring and Sampling the Vadose Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Thomas Ballestero, Beverly Herzog, and Glenn Thompson 4. Remote Sensing and Geophysical Methods for Evaluation of Subsurface Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Richard C. Benson 5. Environmental Drilling for Soil Sampling, Rock Coring, Borehole Logging, and Monitoring Well Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Tom Ruda and Jeffrey Farrar 6. Use of Direct-Push Technologies in Environmental Site Characterization and Ground-Water Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Wesley McCall, David M. Nielsen, Stephen P. Farrington, and Thomas M. Christy 7. DNAPL Characterization Methods and Approaches: Performance and Cost Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Mark L. Kram 8. Ground-Water Monitoring System Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 Martin N. Sara 9. Designing Monitoring Programs to Effectively Evaluate the Performance of Natural Attenuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 Todd H. Wiedemeier, Michael J. Barden, Patrick E. Haas, and W. Zachary Dickson 10. Design and Installation of Ground-Water Monitoring Wells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639 David M. Nielsen and Ronald Schalla 11. Multilevel Ground-Water Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807 Murray Einarson 12. Monitoring Well Post-Installation Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849 Curtis A. Kraemer, James A. Shultz, and James W. Ashley 13. Acquisition and Interpretation of Water-Level Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883 Matthew G. Dalton, Brent E. Huntsman, and Ken Bradbury 14. Methods and Procedures for Defining Aquifer Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913 John Sevee 15. Ground-Water Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959 David M. Nielsen and Gillian L. Nielsen 16. Ground-Water Sample Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113 Rock J. Vitale and Olin C. Braids 17. Organization and Analysis of Ground-Water Quality Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135 Martin N. Sara and Robert Gibbons 18. Diagnosis of Ground-Water Monitoring Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193 Charles T. Kufs 19. Health and Safety Considerations in Ground-Water Monitoring Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1219 Steven P. Maslansky and Carol J. Maslansky 20. Decontamination of Field Equipment Used in Environmental Site Characterization and Ground-Water Monitoring Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263 Gillian L. Nielsen Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281