Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND)
Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND) is one of 39 environmental and peace organizations that won a landmark lawsuit against the U.S Department of Energy for failure to follow-through on adequate environmental cleanup during its 50+ years of nuclear weapons research, testing, and production. Part of this settlement was the establishment of the MTA Fund (Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund), which provided $6.25 million for tribes and non-profit organizations to assess and conduct independent technical and scientific studies regarding the multitude of technical, ecological, and health issues surrounding the nation’s nuclear weapons complex.
Clark University was chosen by the non-profit peace and environmental groups as the conservator of these reports to ensure they remain available to the public in perpetuity. The unconventional election of university as conservator is an innovative example, particularly within the era of Web 1.0, of higher education as protector and provider of information through wide dissemination.
The research and reports available in this series were conducted by Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND) with their allocated portion of the MTA fund.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu.
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Figure 2 - Perched Monitoring Wells
Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND)
Map of perched aquifer monitoring wells located at the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Facility in the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle, seventeen miles northeast of Amarillo, TX.
This research was completed money allocated during Round 6 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
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Figure 1 - Ogallala Monitoring Wells
Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.
Map of the Ogallala aquifer monitoring wells, located at the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Facility in the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle, seventeen miles northeast of Amarillo, TX.
This research was completed money allocated during Round 6 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu
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STANDpoint Special Edition
Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.
Newsletter covering the ongoing developments and studies conducted by STAND through the MTA Fund grant.
This research was completed money allocated during Round 6 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu
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STAND’s Proposal for Long-Term Monitoring of Groundwater at Pantex
George Rice; Pam Allison; and Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.
This report identifies wells that STAND believes should be included in a long-term monitoring plan for the Ogallala and perched aquifers at the Pantex Plant. Most of these wells already exist. To enable managing the (1) uncertainties that result from known data gaps and (2) the contaminant plume, STAND recommends installing a number of additional wells, which are prioritized in Table 1. Well locations are shown on accompanying maps (Figures 1 and 2 illustrating monitoring wells in Ogallala and perched aquifers, respectively).
Samples from all wells should be analyzed for metals, VOCs, SVOCs, high explosives, perchlorate, pesticides, herbicides, PCBs, and dioxins/furans.
Recommendations on placement of these wells and others are based on our current understanding of the extent of the perched aquifer. Monitoring locations, monitoring frequency, and sample analytes should be adjusted based on information obtained as monitoring continues.
This research was completed money allocated during Round 5 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu
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Final Report - Effectiveness of the Perched Aquifer Pump and Treat System
Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.
This is an evaluation of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) report: Annual Report in Support of Compliance Plan No. CP-50284-0001. This evaluation was performed for STAND, an organization of concerned citizens.
The Annual Report contains little original information. It briefly summarizes information contained in other DOE reports regarding clean-up activities at Pantex. It does not present a thorough analysis of the effectiveness of DOE’s clean-up activities. Because of this lack of information, DOE’s quarterly reports of analytical results2 were examined to evaluate the effectiveness of one of the major clean-up systems at Pantex - the perched aquifer pump and treat system.
This research was completed money allocated during Round 6 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu
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Contaminants in the Ogallala Aquifer at Pantex
George Rice; Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.; and Pam Allison
Contaminants from the Pantex Plant documented to have entered the High Plains (Ogallala) Aquifer include metals, and organic and explosives compounds. This report critically examines some of the reported analyses of groundwater by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for the time period 1998-2003.
During the calendar year 2002 Pantex collected and analyzed groundwater samples for metals and radionuclides from 16 wells completed in the Ogallala Aquifer and 18 wells in the shallower perched aquifer. Of the wells in the Ogallala Aquifer, 51 paired-samples (filtered vs unfiltered) resulted in 1123 analytical results for 23 metals.
This research was completed money allocated during Round 5 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu
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Filling in the Blanks? - Contaminants in the Ogallala Aquifer
Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.
Contaminants from the Pantex Plant have been documented by Pantex and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to have entered the Ogallala Aquifer (also known as the High Plains Aquifer). These contaminants include metals, and organic and explosives compounds. This report examines some of the analyses of groundwater that were reported by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the TCEQ) for the time period 1998-2003.
This research was completed money allocated during Round 5 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu
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Health Effects of Selected Industrial Chemicals and Radionuclides: An Introduction
Valerie Nabav; Rachael Hawkins; Marvin Tesnikoff; and Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.
The purpose of this report is to provide information about the health hazards that exposures to industrial chemicals and radionuclides may pose to the community. Sources of additional information are provided in Appendix 3. In this way, the community might better under- stand the heath issues and hazards related to these chemicals and contaminants.
This research was completed money allocated during Round 3 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu
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Background Concentrations of Contaminants in the Ogallala Aquifer at Pantex: An Evaluation
George Rice and Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.
This report evaluates the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Risk Reduction Rule Guidance to the Pantex Plant RFI. This evaluation was performed on behalf of Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), a non-profit organization of concerned citizens.
This research was completed money allocated during Round 3 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu
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Groundwater Modeling at Pantex and Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Group
George Rice and Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.
The Department of Energy (DOE) Pantex Plant is developing models to simulate groundwater flow and contaminant transport. A Technical Advisory Group (TAG) was formed to examine groundwater modeling issues at Pantex, review available models, and recommend those models it felt were appropriate to the situations at Pantex.
This report discusses: (1) groundwater models; (2) modeling issues and requirements in general and at Pantex; (3) the TAG and its recommendations; and (4) the reliability of model results.
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Evaluation of Groundwater Characterization and Modeling at the Pantex Plant
George Rice and Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND), Inc.
This is an evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to characterize and model groundwater contamination at the Pantex plant. This evaluation was performed on behalf of Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping (STAND).
This research was completed money allocated during Round 1 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at digitalrepository@clarku.edu
