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| Title | Evaluation of Groundwater Contamination at Roeder Avenue Landfill, Bellingham | |||
| Month-Year Published | September 1996 | |||
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| Short Description |
The northwest perimeter of Roeder Avenue Landfill, a historic municipal dump located near the shoreline of Bellingham Bay, was monitored to determine if priority pollutants were migrating off-site through groundwater. The Washington Department of Ecology installed four monitoring wells and sampled them quarterly for one year (June 1994 - March 1995). (Also see abstract below) | |||
| Publication Number | 96-341 | |||
| Author(s) | Cubbage, J. and P. Marti | |||
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| Number of pages | 21 p | |||
| Keywords | chromium, contaminant, contamination, evaluation, Ground Water, groundwater, landfill, marine, metals, model, Model Toxic Control Act, priority pollutant, sediment, study, toxic, water, wells, Whatcom | |||
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| Abstract | Long Description |
The northwest perimeter of Roeder Avenue Landfill, a historic municipal dump located near the shoreline of Bellingham Bay, was monitored to determine if priority pollutants were migrating off-site through groundwater. The Washington Department of Ecology installed four monitoring wells and sampled them quarterly for one year (June 1994 - March 1995). Of the priority pollutants examined, chromium was the only contaminant that consistently exceeded the Model Toxic Control Act (MTCA) cleanup level of 50 mg/L. The mean concentrations of chromium were 280 mg/L and 68 mg/L. No volatiles or semivolatiles exceeded MTCA standards. In a 1992 groundwater study conducted on the southeast side of the landfill, some metals and organics were found above MTCA standards; however, chromium exceeded standards by a large margin. Both studies indicate that chromium is probably migrating off-site. |
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