Technical justification for a request to reclassify the former CCC/USDA facility at Canada, Kansas. (open access)

Technical justification for a request to reclassify the former CCC/USDA facility at Canada, Kansas.

Contamination in groundwater at Canada, Kansas, was discovered in 1997, during limited private well sampling near former grain storage facilities of the Commodity Credit Corporation, U.S. Department of Agriculture (CCC/USDA). Subsequent investigations by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) confirmed carbon tetrachloride and nitrate concentrations in groundwater above the respective maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) of 5.0 {micro}g/L and 10.0 mg/L. The KDHE investigations identified both the former CCC/USDA grain storage facility and a private grain storage facility as likely sources for the carbon tetrachloride contamination. The CCC/USDA funded extension of a rural water district line to provide a permanent alternate water supply, and the KDHE has conducted long-term monitoring under the State Water Plan. This document presents an analysis of the available information for the Canada site, acquired in previous investigations and the long-term KDHE monitoring. This analysis forms the technical justification for a request to reclassify the former CCC/USDA grain storage facility at Canada as a site requiring no further action under the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) between the KDHE and the USDA's Farm Service Agency. The KDHE's long-term water level monitoring results indicate a consistent groundwater flow direction to the east-southeast. Consequently, the wells with the highest …
Date: December 21, 2007
Creator: LaFreniere, L. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Installations and State Action Papers - Kansas (open access)

Army Installations and State Action Papers - Kansas

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Date: September 21, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library