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Nonvolatile dissolved organic carbon and diesel range organics concentrations measured in 2016 at the USGS crude oil study site near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA
The Bemidji crude oil spill site is a long-term USGS study site to understand the fate of crude oil in the shallow subsurface. A description of the site can be found at https://mn.water.usgs.gov/projects/bemidji. In 2014 concentrations of non-volatile dissolved organic carbon (NVDOC) were three times higher than diesel range organics (DRO) in the contaminant plume*. This is important because most of the NVDOC in the plume is composed of partial transformation products of compounds from the crude oil that are not reflected in a DRO analysis. In 2016 we conducted a campaign to determine if DRO values continue to reflect only a fraction of the NVDOC. These data are the results of that campaign. A total of 25 wells were sampled for DRO and NVDOC in August, 2016. Three wells with long term records were included in the sampling: 530B, 515B, and 9316D. Wells sampled in 2016 but not in 2014 include two wells located 14 m from a down gradient lake (1217B and 1217C) and one well in the zone sprayed by oil (956). *Bekins, B. A., Cozzarelli, I. M., Erickson, M. L., Steenson, R. A., and Thorn, K. A., 2016, Crude Oil Metabolites in Groundwater at Two Spill Sites: Groundwater, v. 54, no. 5, p. 681-691.
| Author(s) |
Isabelle M Cozzarelli |
| Publication Date | 2017-11 |
| Beginning Date of Data | 2016-08-02 |
| Ending Date of Data | 2016-08-06 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CN733T |
| Citation | Cozzarelli, I.M., and Bekins, B.A., 2017, Nonvolatile dissolved organic carbon and diesel range organics concentrations measured in 2016 at the USGS crude oil study site near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CN733T. |
| Metadata Contact | |
| Metadata Date | 2020-08-18 |
| Related Publication | There was no related primary publication associated with this data release. |
| Citations of these data | Loading https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AQUATOX.2022.106247 |
| Access | public |
| License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
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