ABSTRACT
Water quality analyses and interpretative data summaries are important to Phase II site characterization efforts, but these data are even of greater importance under detection and assessment activities associated with facility compliance. Detection monitoring efforts are performed to verify attainment of performance objectives, and assessment monitoring is made of efforts to identify facility non-compliance in terms of nature, location and extent of contamination. One should not lose sight that geologic conditions and observed hydraulic heads, are typically more important field data that water quality data to sort out the contamination flow paths and ultimate remediation solution for a particular site.
