Radon in Ground Water [Hardcover]

This new book focuses on sampling and analysis, radon and radium in water supply wells, predictive models, geologic and hydrogeologic controls that influence radon occurrence, monitoring radon and other radioactivity from geologic sources and mining impacts on occurrence of radioactivity in ground water. Also discussed are occurrence, testing, treatment, and reduction of radon from groundwater. Because the most severe health hazard from indoor radioactivity results from inhalation of short-lived radioactive decay products of radon, the EPA scheduled a major conference early in 1987 on Radon, Radium, and Other Radioactivity in Ground Water-Hydrogeologic Impact and Application to Indoor Airborne Contamination. The result is this book.KEYNOTE. Development of Regulations for Radionuclides in Drinking Water. GEOLOGIC AND HYDROGEOLOGIC CONTROLS INFLUENCING RADON OCCURRENCE. Geologic Controls and Radon Occurrence in New England. The Effect of Uranium Siting in Two-Mica Granites on Uranium Concentrations and Radon Activity in Ground Water. Source and Distribution of Natural Radioactivity in Ground Water of the Newark Basin, New Jersey. MONITORING RADON, RADIUM AND OTHER RADIOACTIVITY FROM GEOLOGIC AND HYDROGEOLOGIC SOURCES. Elevated Levels of Radioactivity in Water Wells in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California. A Preliminary Assessment of Factors Affecting Radon Levels in Idaho. Natural Radioactivity in Some Ground Waters of the Canadian Shield. Determination of Bulk Radon Emanation Rates by High Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy. Radon in Ground Water of the Long Valley Caldera, California. MINING IMPACTS ON THE OCCURRENCE OF RADON, RADIUM AND OTHER RADIOACTIVITY IN GROUND WATER. Radioactivity in Hocking River Basin. Factors Controlling Uranium and Radium Isotopic Distributions in Ground Waters of the West Central Florida Phosphate District. SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS OF RADON, RADIUM AND OTHER RADIOACTIVITY IN GROUND WATER. Sampling and Analysis of Dissolved Radon-222 ilC'