Geochemistry data collected (1985-2015) for understanding the evolution of groundwater-contaminant plume chemistry emanating from legacy contaminant sources, an example from a long-term crude oil spill near Bemidji, Minnesota

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release is focused on the geochemistry of wells within the oil zone and groundwater monitoring wells away from the oiled zone at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site, Bemidji MN (USA) from 1985-2015. The site located in Beltrami County is where a high-pressure pipeline carrying crude oil burst in 1979 and spilled approximately 1.7 million liters (10,700 barrels) of crude oil into glacial outwash deposits. Researchers and scientists from government agencies, academic institutions, the regulatory community, and private companies have conducted extensive investigations of groundwater geochemistry in hopes of understanding the evolution of plumes...

Tags: BTEX, Beltrami, Bemidji, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, All tags... Minnesota, National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, alkalinity, alkylbenzenes, ammonium, arsenic, bicarbonate, biochemistry, biodegradation, carbon isotope analysis, chromatography, contaminant transport, crude oil spill, dissolved organic compounds, environment, gas chromatography, geochemistry, groundwater, groundwater monitoring, hydrocarbons, light non-aqueous phase liquid, liquid chromatography, manganese, mass spectroscopy, methane, methanogenesis, naphthalene, natural attenuation, non-volatile dissolved organic carbon, nutrient content (water), oil resources, organic acid anions, petroleum, salinity, silicon, toxic trace element contamination, volatile hydrocarbons, water chemistry, water properties, water sampling, Fewer tags