Storm Runoff and Transport of Radionuclides in DP Canyon, Los Alamos County, New Mexico

摘要

Effluents from the waste treatment plant at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory's Technical Area 21 are released into DP Canyon. The radionuclides remaining in the effluents are bound to stream-chan¬nel sediments which are later carried out of the canyon by storm runoff.nA study was made to determine the runoff volume, the suspended-sediment load, and the amount of radio¬activity carried out of DP Canyon by storm runoff. During the summer of 1967, precipitation resulted in 23 runoff events that carried =88 000 kg of sus¬pended sediments out of the canyon in S36 800 m3 of water.