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Description of groundwater monitoring wells installed at and near Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2013-2016

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2013
End Date
2016
Revision
2019-05-09

Citation

Bell, M.T., Ferguson, C.L., and Brown, J.E., 2018, Description of groundwater monitoring wells installed at and near Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2013-2016 (ver. 1.2, May 2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7NV9HHG.

Summary

This data release is comprised of data compiled during the construction of monitoring wells at four sentinel well sites: Trumbull, Cesar Chavez, Southern, and VA. These wells are located in southeastern Albuquerque, New Mexico (Figures 1 and 2). Between March 2013 and April 2016, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority and the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center, installed 22 wells at four sites on and near Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB). The wells, installed in response to an aviation fuel spill that was discovered in 1999 at the Bulk Fuels Facility (BFF) on KAFB, were screened at varying depths in order to characterize the aquifer at shallow, intermediate, [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Meghan T Bell
Originator :
Meghan T Bell, Christina L Ferguson, Jeb E Brown
Metadata Contact :
Meghan T Bell
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
New Mexico Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Figures.pdf 3.87 MB application/pdf
Geophysical Logs.pdf 6.8 MB application/pdf
Construction Diagrams_1.2.pdf 1.07 MB application/pdf
Table of well construction data_1.2.xlsx 16.23 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
VersionHistory.txt 744 Bytes text/plain

Purpose

Data were collected and collated to provide geologic, hydrogeologic, and geophysical information at the location of the sentinel wells.

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Provenance

Revision 1.2 completed on May 9, 2019. To review the changes that were made, see “VersionHistory.txt” in the attached files section.

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