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Geological rechnks/Ac Page 4 ' Groundwater Monitoring Report . Project No 723 2 March 21,2005 ' The following procedure is used to calculate vertical groundwater gradient ❑ Determine vertical distance between the two measuring devices by the distance from the crud-point between the top and bottom seal of the deep well (MW-201) and the mid-point ' between the groundwater elevation and the bottom seal in the shallow well (MW-3) ❑ Measure the head in both wells used in the calculations ❑ If the lateral distance between the well pair is greater than a few feet, then calculations ' must be made to correct the down-gradient piezometric head to account for the sloping water table between the wells The calculation considers the slope of the water table and the distance in a down-gradient direction between the two wells used in the calculations ' Figure 2 shows the location of the well pairs used for calculating vertical groundwater gradient in this report MW-3/MW-201, MW-8/MW-108 and MW-108/MW-208 Tables i - ' 4 show Summaries of Water Level and Gradients Slope and Bearing and Table 6 shows the calculated vertical gradients The information used in the calculations is shown below ' Vertical gradient calculation formulas are as follows ❑ Vertical correction for gradient [(gw gradient slope) x (distance) = vertical correction] ❑ Vertical head [(head of deep well) - (head of shallow + correction) =vertical head] ❑ Vertical gradient [(vertical head)/ (vertical distance) = vertical gradient] For the January 2005 event ' o the vertical gradient for the MW-3/MW-201 pair was negative (or downward) at - 0 001 ft/ft o The MW-8/MW-108 and MW-108/MW-208 well sets also displayed downward ' gradients at -0 001 and -0 03 ft/ft, respectively o Previous calculations have revealed both positive and negative gradients at the site ' but additional monitoring is needed to determine long-term trends especially in the CMTm well sets ' 1.2 Groundwater Sampling Procedure On January 27, 2005, Del-Tech Geotechnical Support personnel arrived on-site, opened the ' wells and measured the depth to water with an electrically actuated sounding tape The water level readings were recorded to an accuracy of 0 01 feet In wells where free-floating product is suspected, a clear disposable bailer is used to gauge the interface During this monitoring ' no free product was noted (this procedure is not exercised in the CMTTM wells due to their limited diameter) ' Stagnant water in the well casing was purged using a Waterra pump as recorded in the field logs (Appendix C) The rate of well purging was monitored The wells were purged of approximately three casing volumes and until the groundwater parameters (temperature, conductivity and pH) had stabilized (Appendix C) indicating that water representative of