Publications Related to Water Quality

General

Ebel, B.A., and Nimmo, J.R., 2010a, Damping of Periodic Fluctuations in Unsaturated Flow--Implications for Contaminant Transport in Thick Unsaturated Zones: Journal of Hydrology [in review].

Mississippi

Perkins, K. S., Nimmo, J.R., Rose, C.E., Coupe, R.H., 2011, Field Tracer Investigation of Unsaturated Zone Flow Paths and Mechanisms in Agricultural Soils of Northwestern Mississippi, USA: Journal of Hydrology, v. 369, p. 1-11. (PDF)

Idaho National Laboratory
Shakofsky, S. M., 1993, Changes in the hydraulic properties of a soil caused by construction of a waste trench at a radioactive waste disposal site: M.S. Thesis, San Jose State University, 53 p.
Shakofsky, S. M., 1995, Changes in soil hydraulic properties caused by construction of a simulated waste trench at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4058.
Shakofsky, S. M., and Nimmo, J. R., 1996, Unsaturated zone properties at a waste disposal site at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, in Morganwalp, D. W., and Aronson, D. A., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 20-24, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4015, p. 949-953.
Perkins, K.S., Nimmo, J.R., and Pittman, J.R., 1998, Hydrologic and meteorological data for an unsaturated-zone study area near the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho, 1990-1996: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-9, 19 p.and disk.
Nimmo, J.R., Shakofsky, S.M., Kaminsky, J.F., and Lords, G.S., 1999, Laboratory and field hydrologic characterization of the shallow subsurface at an Idaho National Engineering Laboratory waste-disposal site, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4263.
Perkins, K.S., and Nimmo, J.R., 2000, Measurement of hydraulic properties of the B-C interbed and their influence on contaminant transport in the unsaturated zone at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, 00-4073.
Perkins, K.S, 2000, Hydrologic and meteorological data for an unsaturated-zone study area near the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho, 1997 to 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-248, 10 p.
Nimmo, J.R., Perkins, K.S., Rose, P.A., Rousseau, J.P., Orr, B.R., Twining, B.V., and Anderson, S.R., 2001, Kilometer-scale rapid flow in a fractured-basalt unsaturated zone at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, in Kueper, B.H., Novakowski, K.S., and Reynolds, D.A., eds., Fractured Rock 2001 Conference Proceedings, March 26-28, 2001, Toronto, Canada, CD-ROM, 4 p.
Perkins, K.S., Nimmo, J.R., Rose, P.A., Rousseau, J.P., Orr, B.R., Twining, B.V., and Anderson, S.R., 2002, Flow system analysis using a surface-applied tracer at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho, U.S. Geological Survey Artificial Recharge Workshop Proceedings, Sacramento, CA, April 2-4, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-89, p. 79-80. (PDF)
Perkins, K.S., 2003, Measurement of sedimentary interbed hydraulic properties and their hydrologic influence near the Idaho Nuclear Engineering and Technology Center at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, 03-4048, 19 p. (PDF)
Winfield, K.A., 2003, Spatial variability of sedimentary interbed properties near the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, 03-4142, 36 p. (PDF)
Nimmo, J.R., Rousseau, J.P., Perkins, K.S., Stollenwerk, K.G., Glynn, P.D., Bartholomay, R.C., and Knobel, L.L., 2004, Hydraulic and geochemical framework of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory vadose zone: Vadose Zone Journal, vol. 3, p. 6-31. (PDF)
Winfield, K.A., 2005, Development of Property-Transfer Models for Estimating the Hydraulic Properties of Deep Sediments at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5114, 49 p. (PDF)
Rousseau, J.P., Landa, E.R., Nimmo, J.R., Cecil, L.D., Knobel, L.L., Glynn, P.D., Kwicklis, E.M., Curtis, G.P., Stollenwerk, K.G., Anderson, S.R., Bartholomay, R.C., Bossong, C.R., and Orr, B.R., 2005, Review of the transport of selected radionuclides in the Interim Risk Assessment for the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Waste Area Group 7, Operable Unit 7-13/14, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5026. ( Vol.1 PDF) ( Vol. 2 PDF)
Nimmo, J.R., Kwicklis, E.M., Rousseau, J.P., Anderson, S.R., Bossong, C.R., and Curtis, G.P., 2005, Task 4--Transport model analysis, in Rousseau, J.P., Landa, E.R., and Nimmo, J.R., eds., Review of the transport of selected radionuclides in the Interim Risk Assessment for the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Waste Area Group 7, Operable Unit 7-13/14, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5026: Idaho Falls, USGS, p. 6-1--6-28, 39--64. (PDF)
Nimmo, J.R., Anderson, S.R., Bartholomay, R.C., Rousseau, J.P., and Knobel, L.L., 2005, Conceptual model of aqueous-phase fluid flow and contaminant transport, in Rousseau, J.P., Landa, E.R., and Nimmo, J.R., eds., Review of the transport of selected radionuclides in the Interim Risk Assessment for the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Waste Area Group 7, Operable Unit 7-13/14, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5026: Idaho Falls, USGS, p. 2-1--2-22, 2--4.
Nimmo, J.R., and Perkins, K.S., 2006, Effect of soil disturbance on aquifer recharge--case study on the Snake River Plain, Idaho National Laboratory, USA, Full Papers, 34th Congress, Beijing, October 9-13, 2006, International Association of Hydrogeologists, CD.
Perkins, K.S. and Winfield, K.A., 2007, Property transfer modeling to estimate unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of deep sediments at the Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5093, 22 p. (PDF)
Perkins, K.S., 2008, Laboratory-Measured and Property-Transfer Modeled Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Snake River Plain Aquifer Sediments at the Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2008–5169, 13 p. (PDF)
Nimmo, J.R., and Perkins, K.S., 2008, Effect of soil disturbance on recharging fluxes--Case study on the Snake River Plain, Idaho National Laboratory, USA: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 16, no. 5, p. 829-844. (PDF)

Nevada Test Site
Ebel, B.A., and Nimmo, J.R., 2009, Estimation of unsaturated zone traveltimes for Rainier Mesa and Shoshone Mountain, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, using a source-responsive preferential-flow model: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1175, 74 p. (PDF)
Ebel, B.A., and NimmoJ.R., 2010, Hydraulic property and soil textural classification measurements for Rainier Mesa, Nevada Test Site, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1264, 17 p. (PDF)

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