M)E/Nv/10845-50
UC-703
POTENTIAL HYDROLOGIC
CHARACTERIZATION WELLS
IN AMARGOSA VALLEY
bY
Brad
Lyles
and Todd
Mihevc
SEPTEMBER
1994
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0845-50
UC-703
POTENTIAL HYDROLOGIC
CHARACTERIZATION WELLS
IN
AMARGOSA VALLEY
bY
Brad Lyles and Todd Mihevc
Water Resources Center
Desert Research Institute
University and Community College System
of
Nevada
Publication
No.
45
129
prepared
for
Nevada Operations Office
U.S.
Department
of
Energy
Las
Vegas, Nevada
September 1994
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upon
which
this report
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based
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supported by
the
U.S.
Department
of
Energy
ABSTRACT
More
than
500
domestic, agricultural, and monitoring wells were identified
in
the
Amargosa Valley. From
this
list,
80
wells were identified
as
potential hydrologic
characterization wells,
in
support of the
U.S.
Department
of
Energy
(DOE)
Underground Test
Area/Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study (UGTA/RIFS). Previous hydrogeologic
studies have shown that groundwater
flow
in
the basin
is
complex
and
that aquifers may have
little lateral continuity. Wells located more than
10
km
or
so
from the Nevada Test Site
(NTS)
boundary
may yield data that
are
difficult to correlate to
sources
from the
NTS.
Also,
monitoring
well locations should
be
chosen within the guidelines
of
a hydrologic conceptual model and
monitoring plan. Since these do not exist
at
this
time, recompletion recommendations will
be
restricted
to
wells relatively close (approximately
20
km)
to
the
NTS
boundary.
Recompletion recommendations were made for
two
abandoned agricultural irrigation
wells near the town
of
Amargosa Valley (previously Lathrop Wells), for
two
abandoned wildcat
oil
wells about
10
km
southwest of Amargosa Valley, and for Test Well
5
(TW-5),
about 10
km
east of Amargosa Valley.
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