4582 Maryland Parkway
WATER RESOURCES CENTER
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November 2,
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
(702) 736-2293
1977
Commander, FCDNA (FCZ)
Kirtland AFB, NM 87115
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Dear Sir:
I have examined carefully the draft Chairman's Report
and the draft Minutes of the Runit Cleanup Conference held
in Las Vegas 4-5 October,
1977.
I have one exception to the
Synopsized Minutes, regarding Item ll from the first day.
The minutes indicate that subsurface sampling would consist
of sidewall soil samples, one 5 cm increment in each 20 cm
depth,
instead of gamma scanning the sidewalls.
However, my notes indicate that the gamma scanning of
the sidewalls would at least be attempted, to see if the
results were reliable enough to be useful.
If so, then only
the "hot spots" would need to be sampled, and if not, the
technique would be dropped.
The "5 cm-in-each-20 cm" incre-
ment would be used to check the reliability of gamma scanning,
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and would become the primary sampling technique if the gamma
scanning proved to be unusable.
I find the remainder of the Minutes, and the Report, to
be clear and accurate.
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Sincerely,
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Madaline Barnes
Research Statistician
Desert Research Institute
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