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List of Contaminant Fate and Transport Projects

Current Projects
Project	Type	Title	Planned End Date
Cape Cod Toxics Research Site	CCS/ CTS	Cape Cod Toxic Substances Hydrology Research Site: Understanding the physical, chemical, and microbiological processes that control the fate and transport of contaminants in ground water	Ongoing
Contamination by Military Activities at the MMR	CCS/ CTS	Contamination of ground water and surface water by past use and disposal of industrial solvents, fuel, solid waste, and treated wastewater at the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod	Ongoing
Contamination by Military Ordnance at Cape Edwards	CCS/ CTS	Contamination of ground water by past use and disposal of military ordnance compounds at Camp Edwards on the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod	Ongoing
Mercury Continental Gradient	CTS	Comparison of mercury in atmospheric deposition in fish across the continental gradient of atmospheric deposition of mercury	2008
Defining Nutrient Fluxes to Estuaries	WWN/ CTS	Defining nutrient fluxes to the estuaries of the Cape Cod National Seashore, MA, to assess alternatives for nutrient loading remediation	2007
Neponset PCBs and Neponset River Estuary	SED/ CTS	Fate and transport of PCBS, Neponset River and Neponset River Estuary, Eastern Massachusetts	2007
Cape Cod Wastewater Alternatives	CCS/ WWN/ CTS	Analysis of wastewater and water resource alternatives, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, by use of a regional ground-water flow and local-scale, solute-transport models	2006
Recently Completed Projects
Project	Type	Title	Completion Date
Pushpoint Sampling	CTS	Pushpoint sampling for defining small-scale spatial and temporal variations of contaminants in pore water near the ground-water/surface-water interface Field Tests of Nylon-Screen Diffusion Samplers and Pushpoint Samplers for Detection of Metals in Sediment Pore Water, Ashland and Clinton, Massachusetts, 2003	2005
Phosphorus Type Curves	WWN/ CTS	Estimation of phosphorus plume length resulting from ground disposal of sewage-treatment effluent or septic effluent	2004
Nyanza Diffusion Sampling	CTS	Field test of vapor-diffusion samplers for reconnaissance of contamant "hot spots" in stream-bottom sediments	2003

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