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Gross Beta Water Results
Nevada Test Site Area
Location
Diablo
Furnace Creek
Ash Meadows
Lathrop Wells
Tonopah Test Range
‘*U,
S.
Date
February 1962
August
1962
July
1962
November 1961
May
- 1962
Levels
cf/l
51
32
70
68
98
Public Health Service Data (March 1962)
Coolidge, Kansas
Page, Arizona
Peoria, Illinois
74
43
58
Kansas City, Kansas
47
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
45
*These levels are some of those recorded for March 1962. The data
presented is activity associatedwith dissolved solids in raw surface
water samples. The levels of radioactivity associated with dissolved
solids provide a rough measure of the levels which may be found in
treated water, where such water treatment removes substantially all
of the suspended matter. The comparison is made, therefore, between
the gross beta activity found in subsurface water supplies which generally are untreated and the gross beta activity in surface water
supplies associated with dissolved solids which are not removed by
water treatment. They should not be interpretated as average values
because levels at many other locations were much lower.
(For more
complete data, see "Radiological Health Data", Vol. III, No. 9,
September 1962.)
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