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Ground-water flow and contaminant transport at a radioactive-materials processing site, Wood River Junction, Rhode Island

January 1, 1997

Liquid wastes from an enriched-uranium cold-scrap recovery plant at Wood River Junction, Rhode Island, were discharged to the environment through evaporation ponds and trenches from 1966 through 1980. Leakage from the ponds and trenches resulted in a plume of contaminated ground water extending northwestward to the Pawcatuck River through a highly permeable sand and gravel aquifer of glacial origin.

Publication Year 1997
Title Ground-water flow and contaminant transport at a radioactive-materials processing site, Wood River Junction, Rhode Island
DOI 10.3133/pp1571
Authors Barbara J. Ryan, Kenneth L. Kipp
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Professional Paper
Series Number 1571
Index ID pp1571
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
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