Environmental Surveillance of the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge Reservation and Surrounding Environs During 1987: Volume 2, Data Presentation

摘要

Comprehensive environmental monitoring data for 1987 show a continuation of progress in bringing the three major Oak Ridge installations into full compliance with permits and regulations issued by the bodies previously mentioned and with their advice and recommendations. Efforts to clean up contaminated storage and disposal areas and to close disposal sites that do not meet current standards are now the focus of long-term, large-scale remedial action efforts. Likewise, new and improved treatment and isolation systems for gaseous, liquid, and solid wastes contribute annually to continuing reductions in potentially harmful emissions and effluents from current operations. This measurable evidence provides a degree of confidence and assurance that the aggressive, long-term program of corrective actions and waste management improvements now under way will be successful in restoring and enhancing environmental quality in the future and in reducing the potential for any deleterious impacts on human health or the environment from current or past Oak Ridge operations. Volume 1 presents narratives, summaries, and conclusions based on environmental monitoring at the three DOE installations and in the surrounding environs during calendar year 1987. Volume 1 is intended to be a ''stand-alone'' report about the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) for the reader who does not want an in-depth review of 1987 data. Volume 2 presents the detailed data from which these conclusions have been drawn and should be used in conjunction with Volume 1. (ERA citation 13:041258)