Environmental Technology Verification Report. Ground Water Sampling Technologies, Geoprobe Inc., Mechanical Bladder Pump, MP470

摘要

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created the Environmental Technology Verification Program (ETV) to facilitate the deployment of innovative or improved environmental technologies through performance verification and dissemination of information. The goal of the ETV Program is to further environmental protection by accelerating the acceptance and use of improved and cost-effective technologies. ETV seeks to achieve this goal by providing high-quality, peer-reviewed data on technology performance to those involved in the design, distribution, financing, permitting, purchase, and use of environmental technologies. Verification of contaminated site characterization and monitoring technologies is carried out within the Advanced Monitoring Systems (AMS) Center, one of seven ETV verification centers. Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy laboratory, is one of the verification testing organizations within this ETV Center. Sandia collaborated with personnel from the US Geological Survey and Tyndall Air Force Base to conduct a verification study of ground-water sampling technologies for deployment in narrow-bore, direct-push wells at contaminated sites with potential ground-water contamination. This verification statement provides a summary of the results from a verification test of the Model MP470 Mechanical Bladder Pump manufactured by Geoprobe Systems Inc.