Water Resources

Monitoring of Groundwater Monitoring and Recovery Wells and Surface Waters

Former Carswell Air Force Base

Fort Worth, Texas

dse has performed quarterly monitoring of groundwater in more than twenty monitoring and recovery wells and surface waters at the former Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas for more than three years. All monitoring has been performed following AFCEE guidelines using low-flow techniques. All of the wells were gauged and tested for NAPLs before sampling. Both dedicated and portable bladder pumps have been used to purge and sample the monitoring and recovery wells in the AOC. All purged water was passed through a monitored flow-through cell and water levels were monitored to assure that the samples were representative of conditions in the impacted aquifer. In addition, surface water conditions have been monitored and water samples collected from several locations in the Trinity River.