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Project Rio Blanco : results from the initial alluvial water quality program
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- Summary
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This alluvial water quality evaluation program determined that there was no significant change in water quality in sampled alluvial wells as a result of Project Rio Blanco.
Details
- Creator
- by Carroll F. Knutson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Las Vegas, Nevada : CER Geonuclear Corporation, 1973
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (v, 34 leaves) : illustrations, map
- data file
- OCLC
- on1290813539
- "October 1, 1973."
- Project Rio Blanco is a joint experiment sponsored by the CER Geonuclear Corporation (CER) of Las Vegas, Nevada and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) as part of the Plowshare Program. Its purpose is to study the economic and technical feasibility of using multiple underground nuclear explosion to stimulate production of natural gas from deeply buried low productivity gas-bearing formations of the Piceance Basin in Northwestern Colorado.
Subjects
- Rio Blanco Oil Shale Project.
- Water quality -- Colorado -- Piceance Creek Basin.
- Water quality -- Measurement.
- Underground nuclear explosions -- Environmental aspects -- Colorado.
- Hydrology -- Colorado -- Piceance Creek Basin.
- Groundwater -- Pollution -- Colorado.
- Oil-shale industry -- Environmental aspects -- Colorado.