Water Quality Sampling Locations Along the Shoreline of the Columbia River, Hanford Site, Washington

Peterson, Robert E. ; Patton, Gregory W.

关键词: AQUIFERS;    COLUMBIA RIVER;    GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;    MANAGEMENT;    MONITORING;    RIVERS;    SAMPLING;    WATER;    WATER QUALITY Hanford Site;    surface water;    groundwater;    Columbia River;    environmental monitoring;    riverbank springs;   

DOI  :  10.2172/972341
RP-ID  :  PNNL-19052
PID  :  OSTI ID: 972341
Others  :  Other: 830403000
Others  :  TRN: US201005%%300

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

As environmental monitoring evolved on the Hanford Site, several different conventions were used to name or describe location information for various sampling sites along the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River. These methods range from handwritten descriptions in field notebooks to the use of modern electronic surveying equipment, such as Global Positioning System receivers. These diverse methods resulted in inconsistent archiving of analytical results in various electronic databases and published reports because of multiple names being used for the same site and inaccurate position data. This document provides listings of sampling sites that are associated with groundwater and river water sampling. The report identifies names and locations for sites associated with sampling: (a) near-river groundwater using aquifer sampling tubes; (b) riverbank springs and springs areas; (c) pore water collected from riverbed sediment; and (d) Columbia River water. Included in the listings are historical names used for a particular site and the best available geographic coordinates for the site, as of 2009. In an effort to create more consistency in the descriptive names used for water quality sampling sites, a naming convention is proposed in this document. The convention assumes that a unique identifier is assigned to each site that is monitored and that this identifier serves electronic database management requirements. The descriptive name is assigned for the convenience of the subsequent data user. As the historical database is used more intensively, this document may be revised as a consequence of discovering potential errors and also because of a need to gain consensus on the proposed naming convention for some water quality monitoring sites.