Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC06-76RLO 1830, with contributions from Fluor Daniel Hanford, Inc. and its enterprise companies, Bechtel Hanford, Inc. and its subcontractors, and MACTEC-ERS.

The complete Hanford Site Environmental Report for Calendar Year 1997 is provided here. The majority of the document is formatted to be viewed with the Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0+. First-time users of the Acrobat Reader should go to the Adobe website to download the software. Some graphics may need to be enlarged with the zoom feature of the reader to view the detail.

Preface

Summary

Acknowledgments

Report Contributors

Helpful Information

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Environmental and Regulatory Compliance Summary

2.1 Stakeholder and Tribal Involvement
2.2 Compliance Status
2.3 Activities, Accomplishments, and Issues
2.4 Environmental Occurrences
2.5 Waste Management and Chemical Inventories

3.0 Facility-Related Monitoring

3.1 Facility Effluent Monitoring
3.2 Near-Facility Environmental Monitoring

4.0 Environmental Surveillance Information

4.1 Air Surveillance
4.2 Surface Water and Sediment Surveillance
4.3 Hanford Site Drinking Water Surveillance
4.4 Food and Farm Product Surveillance
4.5 Fish and Wildlife Surveillance
4.6 Soil and Vegetation Surveillance
4.7 External Radiation Surveillance

5.0 Potential Radiological Doses from 1997 Hanford Operations

6.0 Groundwater and Vadose Zone Monitoring

6.1 Hanford Groundwater Monitoring Project
6.2 Vadose Zone Characterization and Monitoring

7.0 Other Hanford Site Environmental Programs

7.1 Climate and Meteorology
7.2 Ecosystem Monitoring
7.3 Cultural Resources
7.4 Community-Operated Environmental Surveillance Program

8.0 Quality Assurance

9.0 References

Appendices

Appendix A - Additional Monitoring Results for 1997
Appendix B - Glossary
Appendix C - Standards and Permits
Appendix D - Dose Calculations
Appendix E - Radionuclides Detected by Gamma Spectroscopy
Appendix F - Threatened and Endangered Species
Appendix G - Errata

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URL: http://www.hanford.gov/docs/annualrp97/index.htm
Document Number: PNL-11795
Document Date: September 1998
Posted: November 1998