Chemical Waste Landfill Monitoring Stations

This website displays data from monitoring systems placed at the Chemical Waste Landfill, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM. The system was operational from March 26, 2003, until April 2005.

Surface data were updated every 5 minutes. Subsurface data were updated every 60 minutes.

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Example Readings

  • well status report
    Well D-3 (Unsaturated Zone)
  • Well status report
    Well CWL-MW2BL (Saturated Zone)
  • Subsurface Conditions report
    Subsurface Conditions
  • temperature graph
    Well D-3 (UZ) Temperature – Humidity
  • Water Vapor Pressure graph
    D-3 Vapor Pressure
  • Temperature Graphs
    CWL-MW2BL(SZ) Temperature-Depth
  • Chemiresistor Graphs
    Well D-3 (UZ) Chemiresistor
  • Chemiresistor Graphs
    Well CWL-MW2BL Chemiresistor
  • Diagnostic Graphs
    Diagnostic Information

Site Photos

  • photos of several different kinds of sensors
    Subsurface sensors and deployment
  • images of the Sprung Strucutres and Containment Cell
    CAMU Sprungs and containment cells
  • Photos of the machines that log the data
    Data-logging station
  • A site map and images of sensors
    Map of Chemical Waste Landfill and remote-sensing wells

This work was performed by the following individuals:

  • Cliff Ho (sensor development/deployment, data analysis, web development, project management)
  • Lucas McGrath (sensor calibration, deployment, data-logger programming)
  • Jerome Wright (data-logger programming, sensor deployment, web development)
  • Robert Ziock (sensor deployment, data-logger programming)
  • Matt Stockham (CAMU weather station installation)
  • Sue Collins (project management)
  • Sharissa Young (project management)
  • Development of the chemiresistor sensor was also performed by staff working on the In-Situ Chemiresistor LDRD project at Sandia