Ground Water
Monitoring Wells
-updated
6-25-2001
Alert:
Vern Hershberger,
CHMM, Environmental Health Specialist with our Safety, Health and Environmental
Affairs Department Reports that the installation work on the three new
monitor wells has been complete for a few weeks. However, the monitor
wells must now be pumped for about a day (~8 hrs) each to properly develop
them. It took a while to get the specialized development pumping equipment
needed. This equipment will be set on a truck-pulled trailer parked
next to the monitor well.
The tenative well
development pumping schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, 6/26/01
- MW-9 on southwest side of Popejoy Hall;
Wednesday, 6/27/01
- MW-4 in the motorcycle parking area on the northeast side of Zimmerman
Library; and,
Thursday, 6/28/01
- MW-10 in the Service Vehicle parking south of HR Employment (Bldg
#26).
SHEA will be barricading
off the effected parking spots in the evening/early morning before the
work begins at each of these locations. If anyone has any serious problems
with this work schedule, please by email Vern at hershber@unm.edu or
call him at 277-9756, or call Larry Watson at 277-5488. Thank you.
The first monitor
well was installed on the east side of the motorcycle parking area in
the parking lot located northeast of the Zimmerman Library. After installation,
the use and appearance of the area has not changed, and only an 18-inch
manhole cover flush with grade remains. The second monitor well is being
installed in the parking area located southwest of the southern loading
dock at Popejoy Hall. Work on this monitor well will started on May
21, 2001. A third monitoring well will be drilled starting on or after
June 1, 2001 in the service vehicle parking area located south of Bldg.
#26 (HR Employment.) The project site fence is already up. Upon request,
I will be glad to send you a map showing the approximate locations discussed
above. If you are in a position to notify the campus or your department
of the associated interruptions, please make such notifications, as
you feel appropriate. Thank you for your assistance and patience with
this ongoing environmental investigation. If you have any related questions
or concerns, please feel free to contact Vern Hersheberger at 277-9756,
or Larry Watson at 277-5488.
