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Water-Resource and Road-Condition Monitoring of Alternative Treatments for Road Deicing

Dates

Start Date
2019-07-15
End Date
2022-09-30

Summary

Introduction The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is evaluating alternative treatments for road deicing with the goal of reducing the impact of this activity on the State’s water resources. The NYSDOT has requested support from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) in monitoring the effects of these alternative treatments on the water resources. In the past, the USGS has cooperated with State transportation agencies in studies to evaluate road-deicer concentrations in Massachusetts (Church and others, 1996; Granato and Smith, 1999; and Smith and Granato, 2010) and to determine the impacts on water resources in Ohio and Indiana that included the application of surface-and borehole-geophysical technologies (Risch and [...]

Contacts

Principal Investigator :
Natasha A Drotar, Guy M Foster
Cooperator/Partner :
NYS Department of Transportation
CMS Group :
New York Water Science Center

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“.Gw monitoring network for a USGS-State cooperative road-deicing study in MA”
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“Example of electromagnetic-induction logs and water-quality results”
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“Highway station to monitor runoff flow and quality and road conditions in study”
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“Instrumentation to monitor runoff flow and quality and road conditions in study ”
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“Location alternative road-deicing treatments, exploratory wells, and proposed ”
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“Proposed specifications for monitoring-well cluster installation.”
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valueThe New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is evaluating alternative treatments for road deicing with the goal of reducing the impact of this activity on the State’s water resources. The NYSDOT has requested support from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) in monitoring the effects of these alternative treatments on the water resources.
projectProducts
productDescriptionA USGS Scientific Investigations Report will be prepared and published that documents the study data collection and analysis methods and presents the interpreted results. The flow, groundwater-level, specific conductance, and temperature data will be entered into the USGS National Water Information System and, selected data will be available real time in graphical and tabulated form from the USGS New York Water Science Center project website. The results of the laboratory analyses will be entered into the USGS National Water Information System and available from the USGS New York Water Science Center project website during the study. The surface-geophysical data will be available through a USGS data-release publication. The geophysical logs will be available from the USGS GeoLog Locator website. The hydraulic-test data and estimated aquifer properties will be entered into the USGS National Water Information System and available from the USGS Aquifer Test Locator website.
statusExpected
projectStatusActive

Highway station to monitor runoff flow and quality and road conditions in study
Highway station to monitor runoff flow and quality and road conditions in study

Communities

  • USGS New York Water Science Center

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  • SALT Project

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