Groundwater monitoring at the Idaho National Laboratory

Austin Taylor and Allison Trcka of the USGS Idaho Water Science Center's Idaho National Laboratory Project Office collect water samples from monitoring well USGS 111 at the Idaho National Laboratory in southeastern Idaho. This monitoring well is one of more than 200 that the USGS maintains to monitor the health of the eastern Snake River Plain aquifer at and near the INL. In the background, a USGS drill crew is drilling a new monitoring well. The INL Project Office works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy.