a largo amount of short-lived material.
By alloying this
material to decay for a short poried oer time cna retention
basis, much of this is dissipated teform it is actualiy dischersed back into the Coluzpbia River.
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aquatic biolecy, thse Biolozy Socticn
at Hanford hos been concerned with waat this material nay co
back in 1945.
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to the Colunbin River life.
We have a laboratory which is located in one of
the precduction areas and cone of tho ways in which we study these
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eifects is to essentially plvz this laboratory in: o the line.
We have a continual sample of water Which is coming out fron
this
gevion waich is 2
soinz into tho
river, ’
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and wo continually
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biologically monitor this waste with acquatic organisms, paré
ticularly young salmon Sinc? this is tho one that has the dollar
Sign attached to it.
Theso are run in terms of toxicity typa
of studies.
The second phase, of course, is our ficld monitoring
provran waich is a sampling of the orsanisrs downstrean,
Sust a moment on this laboratory sampling program.
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This is a continual flew process we havo
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where we have a nuaber of troughs Which are set up, and we
bring in river water which is uncontaminated essentially -- also
proper and appropriate anounts of the pile water dircethy iron
the system, , set these up
in a serics of dilutions ranging
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