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Lewis, Mike

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DOE OSTI2018

2017 Idaho National Laboratory Water Use Report and Comprehensive Well Inventory (Revision 26)

This 2017 Idaho National Laboratory Water Use Report and Comprehensive Well Inventory (Revision 26) provides water use information for production and potable water wells at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site for Calendar Year 2017. It also provides detailed information for new, modified, and decommissioned wells. Fourteen new wells were drilled and completed in Calendar Year 2017. No wells on the INL Site were decommissioned in Calendar Year 2017. However, an offsite area near Box Canyon that contained instrumented boreholes used for research was decommissioned. Detailed construction and decommissioning information and location maps for the wells are provided. This report is being submitted in accordance with the Water Rights Agreement between the State of Idaho and the United States, for the United States Department of Energy (dated 1990), the subsequent Partial Decree for Water Right 34-10901 issued June 20, 2003, and the Final Unified Decree issued August 26, 2014.

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Closure Plan for the Idaho National Laboratory Site's Materials and Fuels Complex Industrial Waste Ditch

The Materials and Fuels Complex industrial waste system currently consists of the Industrial Waste Pond and Industrial Waste Ditch, associated piping, lift station, and flow meter. The Industrial Waste Pond and Industrial Waste Ditch, are land application sites permitted under Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Reuse Permit I-160-02, Modification 1. The Reuse Permit allows for 17 million gallons of industrial wastewater to be discharged to the land application sites. For Reuse Permit year 2017, approximately 7.569 million gallons were discharged to the land application sites, of which 1.649 million gallons were discharged to the Industrial Waste Ditch. A project (MFC West Campus Utility Corridor project) is proposed to begin in the summer of 2018. The project will install a new utility corridor along the west and north sides of the Materials and Fuels Complex. As part of the design, it is proposed to reroute the wastewater currently discharged to the Industrial Waste Ditch into an underground pipe that would connect into the existing Industrial Waste Pipeline. The Industrial Waste Ditch pipe would enter the existing Industrial Waste Pipeline upstream of the existing flow meter and sampling location. This would allow for the combined wastewater streams to be monitored for flow and sampled for parameters required by the Reuse Permit. In accordance with the Reuse Permit, this closure plan is being submitted to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality for review and approval. Once the closure plan is approved, the Reuse Permit will be modified to remove the Industrial Waste Ditch from the permit. The closure plan includes: • Brief background of the Materials and Fuels Complex. • Reuse Permit history. • Site characteristics. • Description of the Industrial Wastewater System. • History of discharges to the Industrial Waste Ditch. • Summary of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act characterization, evaluation, and remediation of the Industrial Waste Ditch. • Contaminant concentrations in the effluent discharged to the Industrial Waste Ditch. • Contaminant concentrations in cross gradient, downgradient, and background monitoring wells. Based on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act characterization and remediation of the Industrial Waste Ditch, low volumes and contaminant concentrations in the effluent subsequently discharged to the Industrial Waste Ditch, and contaminant concentrations at or near background levels in the monitoring wells, it is recommended that the Industrial Waste Ditch should be closed without further characterization.

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DOE OSTI2017

Closure Report for the Central Facilities Area Sewage Treatment Plant Lagoon 3 and Land Application Area

Because of significantly reduced wastewater discharges to the Central Facilities Area Sewage Treatment Plant, wastewater has not been land applied since 2011. The future need to land apply wastewater was evaluated. Based on the current wastewater flows into the Central Facilities Area Sewage Treatment Plant, expected future missions at Central Facilities Area, and the discovery in 2014 that Lagoon 3 was leaking at an unacceptable rate, it was determined that the Central Facilities Area Sewage Treatment Plant is significantly oversized and that Lagoons 1 and 2 could be converted to total evaporation lagoons. Therefore, the decision was made to remove the existing sludge in Lagoon 3 and transfer it to Lagoon 2 for additional treatment, decommission Lagoon 3 and the land application area, and terminate the wastewater reuse permit. A closure plan was submitted and approved by the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality in 2016. This report describes the closure activities that were performed. Closure activities included: • Characterizing the soil/liner in Lagoon 3 to determine whether further characterization and/or remediation will be required under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. • Based on the results from the soil/liner sampling, determining whether additional sampling will be required for the land application area. • Removing the sludge in Lagoon 3 and placing it in Lagoon 2. • Puncturing the Lagoon 3 soil/liner to prevent ponding of storm water and becoming a source for vectors. • Installing a permanent cap on the inlet piping to Lagoon 3. Samples were collected on November 10, 2016, and were submitted for analysis to an off-site laboratory. Data validation and evaluation were performed by Portage, INC. Sample results confirmed that there is no hazard to human health and the environment and that Lagoon 3 and the land application area could be closed. In August 2017, sludge was removed from Lagoon 3 and placed in Lagoon 2, the soil/liner was punctured in 4 places, and caps were installed on the primary and bypass inlet lines.

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2016 Idaho National Laboratory Water Use Report and Comprehensive Well Inventory (Revision 25)

This 2016 Idaho National Laboratory Water Use Report and Comprehensive Well Inventory (Revision 25) provides water use information for production and potable water wells at the Idaho National Laboratory Site for Calendar Year 2016. It also provides detailed information for new, modified, and decommissioned wells. Four new wells were drilled and completed in Calendar Year 2016. Five storm water injection wells were decommissioned in Calendar Year 2016. Detailed construction and decommissioning information and location maps for the wells are provided. This report is being submitted in accordance with the Water Rights Agreement between the State of Idaho and the United States, for the United States Department of Energy (dated 1990), the subsequent Partial Decree for Water Right 34-10901 issued June 20, 2003, and the Final Unified Decree issued August 26, 2014.

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NASA Langley flight test program

General overview of NASA/Langley Research Center wind shear flight project is presented in the form of view-graphs. The following subject areas are covered: program elements (hazard characterization, sensor technology, and flight management systems); flight test objective; facility; flight requirements; flight operations; and status/schedule.

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