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3. CONVENTIONAL GEOLOGIC 3. DISPOSAL CONVENTIONAL GEOLOGIC
Lohman, S. W., Ground Water Hydraulics, U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 708,
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972.
3.a Siting Polubarinova-Kochina, P. Ya., Theory of Groundwater Movement, Princeton
University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1962.
3.a.1 . 1.5 Walton, W. C., Groundwater Resource Evaluation, McGraw-Hill, New York,
The discussion of multiple barriers should also indicate the barrier-like 1970.
1970.
effect of the liquid transport processes that result in dilution and
dispersal of radioactive material. While these processes are technically
not barriers, they serve almost the same function by reducing the amount
of material reaching a specified point and by increasing the time for a
specific quantity of material to reach a location.
The
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reference cited (#8) for Figure 3.1.1 is incorrect for this figure.
The information is not found in that report. However, there is an identical
map in Y/OWI/TM 36/3. This was derived from USGS Bulletin 1148. The
original reference should be used especially since it is readily available
3.a.2 . 3.1.5 to the public whereas the contractor report is not.
The section on Hydrology of Host Rock is highly simplified. For more
detailed explanations standard reference works such as the following
should be cited: sou e
3.a.4
3.a.4
p. 3.1.11
p. 3.1.11
An explanation should be provided as to why the areas shown in Fig. 3.1.2
Bear, J., Dynamics of Fluids in - Porous Media, American ~U.S. Elsevier, New York,
1972
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Bear, J., Hydraulics of Groundwater, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979.
Bouwer, H., Groundwater Hydrology, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1978
Davis, Stanley N. and R. J. M. DeWiest, Hydrogeology, J. Wiley and Sons,
are favorable granitic sites. Certainly there are many other areas of the
U.
where granitic rocks are either at, or close to the surface, e.g.,
St. Francois Mts. of Missouri, Llano uplift of Texas, Wasatch and Uinta
Mts. of Utah, the Big Horns of Wyoming, and the shallowly buried part of
the Nemaha Ridge.
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New York, 1966. 3.a.5 p. 3.1.11
DeWiest, Roger J. M., Flow Through Porous Media, Academic Press, New York, T r . ..
The reference cited for Fig. 3.1.2 is incorrect and it could not have been
969.
Domenico, 'Domes Patrick A., Concents and ad Models M s in Groundwater G r Hydrolocv,.
H .
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972.d
Freeze, R. Allan and John Cherry, Groundwater, Prentice-Hall, 1979.
developed from the information found in Reference 9. However, it appears
in Y/OWI/TM 36/3 and is based on a diagram in OWI-76-27. Original sources
should
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be used.
International Association for Hydraulic Research, Fundamentals of
3.a.6 p
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Phenomena in Porous Media, Elsevier Publishing Co., New York, 1972.
Johnson Division, Universal Oil Products Co., Ground Water S1947 and Wells,
St. Paul, Minnesota, First Edition, 1966, 2nd Printing, 1972.
' p. 7.2.9, DOE/ET-0028
It would be better to use either a more recent reference than Pirsson's
book or to be more selective in the data excerpted from Pirsson. For
example, the silica content of the granite is rather high. It turns out