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An Environmentally Friendly Decontamination Protocol for Ground Water Sampling Devices
Author(s) -
Parker Louise V.,
Ranney Thomas A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
groundwater monitoring and remediation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-6592
pISSN - 1069-3629
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2003.tb00674.x
Subject(s) - human decontamination , contamination , environmental science , sampling (signal processing) , groundwater , waste management , protocol (science) , environmentally friendly , environmental chemistry , environmental engineering , chemistry , computer science , engineering , medicine , ecology , alternative medicine , geotechnical engineering , filter (signal processing) , pathology , biology , computer vision
Several detergent‐washing/air‐drying decontamination protocols were tested to determine their ability to remove residual contamination from two types of ground water sampling devices. We tested a relatively simply constructed device, a bailer, and a much more complex, and theoretically more difficult to decontaminate, bladder pump. The devices were decontaminated after sampling ground water that was contaminated with organics that varied in their hydrophobic nature and propensity to be sorbed by the materials in the devices. These studies showed that a hot‐detergent wash, hot‐water rinse, and hot‐air drying protocol was effective.