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Single-well tracer test

By Environmental Health Program 2007 (approx.)
Single-well tracer tests involve injecting a tracer solution into one port of a multilevel sampling well
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Detailed Description

Single-well tracer tests involve injecting a tracer solution into one port of a multilevel sampling well, creating a tracer cloud in the groundwater, and then monitoring the water chemistry in the tracer cloud from the same well as the tracer cloud moves away from the well.

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