Accession Number:

ADA090131

Title:

Multiple-Port Piezometer Installation at Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS GEOTECHNICAL LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Vispi,Mark A.

Report Date:

1980-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

32.0

Abstract:

This report documents the installation of multi-port piezometer casing in two borings at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal RMA in Denver, Colo. The purposes of the installation were to determine the feasibility of monitoring and sampling groundwater at multiple levels in a single borehole, to compare the installation costs of this type system to the costs of installing open system observation wells, and to compare the chemical analysis data on groundwater samples obtained through the system to the chemical data on groundwater sampled obtained through adjacent open system observation wells that are currently being used at RMA. The report describes the component parts of the system installed at RMA along with the installation procedure. A cost comparison between the multiple-port system and the observation well system is made and formulus are presented that can be used to compute the installation cost of both the multiple-port system and the observation well system for varying numbers and depths of ports. A limited number of groundwater samples taken through the system precluded a meaningful comparison of the chemical analysis data between groundwater samples obtained through the multiple-port system and those obtained through the adjacent observation well system. the piezometric pressure readings obtained from both systems compared very favorably.

Descriptors:

• *LININGS
• *WATER WELLS
• MEASUREMENT
• PROBES
• GROUND WATER
• SAMPLING
• PRESSURE
• PUMPING
• PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS
• PORTS(OPENINGS)

Subject Categories:

• Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE