Table 223.

Climatological data for Kwajalein and Enewetak,”
Percentage of total time at each wind-speed interval

Jan

Feb

Mar Apr

May

June July

Aug

Sept

Oct

Nov Dec

Av

Wind speed, knots?

0-3

1

1

1

4)

1

1

6

10

16

9

3

1

4.2

4-10

15

12

22

20

27

27

49

60

59

63

42

20

«34.7

11-21

68

80

70

75

69

70

44

29

24

28

53

70

8656.7

22-33

15

7

7

5

3

2

1

0

)

4.4

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

NE

NE

>33
Prevailing wind

direction and

.

NE

frequency”

NE

NE

NE

NE

NE

E/NE E

NE

NE

,

each

°

Yr, of
_Yr_ record

Precipitation®
Av. amount, in,

Greatest amount,
Least amount, in.
Mean number of
days,

0,01 in,

--

86% 87% 81% 77% 67% 64% 36% 31% 27% 33% 55% 74% --

or

1.84

1.86

1.28

4.57

3.37

6.30

2.63

51.46

30

1,95 10,21

1.02

7.33

3.86

8.38

7,03 15.35 14.41 13,17 18.07 17.38

6.45

6.81

6,24

9.09

9,18

69.86

13

24.42

13

198

10

0.12

0.40

0.37

0.49

0.37

1.33

1.36

4.22

1,53

2.60

1.94

0.86

il

10

13

13

16

16

21

21

20

21

21

16

more,

*U. S. Hydrographic Office, Sailing Directions for the Pacific Islands, H. O, Pub. No. 82,
Vol, 1, Second Edition (1964}, updated to Dec, 3, 1970,
Pwind data for Kwaialein.
Precipitation data for Enewetak.

for DNA,» estimated that there were

on the other northern islands (KATE,

approximately 7200 ya° of contaminated

LUCY, MARY, NANCY, OLIVE,

metal and concrete present on Enewetak

URSULA, VERA, and WILMA),

Atoll in December 1972.

though none of them contains ground-zero

AEC radiation

even

monitors accompanied the H&N crews in

sites, and neither the aerial radiological

order to identify the radioactive material.

Survey nor the ground survey parties

Table 224 shows the distribution of this

detected this type of debris.

debris on islands where this type of

survey was conducted.

On the southern islands, there were

The amounts of

four locations where radioactive scrap

material listed should be taken only as

material was found:

e

an approximate lower limit, particularly

On the north end of ELMER (in the

on islands such as PEARL, where very

"C" level area of Fig. B.37.1.b in

heavy underbrush prevented the survey

Appendix II) there are several

party from covering all parts of the

pieces of scrap iron with activity

island.

levels above local background.

In addition, it is conceivable that

radioactive scrap material may be found

In the central part of ELMER (the

large "E" level area of Fig,

B.39.1.b) a partially shielded °° co

“Engineering Study for a Cleanup Plan,

Enewetak Atoll- Marshall Islands,
Holmes and Narver, Repts. HN-1348.1

source was found in a smail storage

and HN-1348.2 (1973).

building.
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