Bemidji Crude-Oil Project
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1989 field work:
 View of 534
well nest with the spray zone visible beyond
the railroad tracks.  Hedeff Essaid, Don Boyce, and student measuring
oil thicknesses.  Marc
Hult collecting soil core using a tripod unit.  Here's another picture of the tripod
coring operation.  This is a view of the tripod
coring site from a distance.  This is the unsaturated-zone
injection test site used by Marc Hult and Art
Baehr.  Here is another view of the above-ground
equipment at the UZ test site.  Control
panel for the UZ test.  View of the 301
well nest at the north pool.  Views of the north pool transect: from
the spray zone...  ...looking west from
about well 531 toward the spray zone.  ...looking east from
about well 423.
 View of middle
oil pool from the pipelines.  View of spray zone from
well 422.  Looking from
the spray zone toward the south pool.  View of hydrophobic
soils in the spray zone.  View of the south
pool and wetland from the pipeline road.  Oily
sand near pipeline road at the south
pool.  Oil
stained gage in the wetland.  Floating
oil on the wetland.  Collecting
a soil core on the south side of the
tracks.  Another view of the drilling operation, taken from the
railroad tracks.  Yet another view
of Don Boyce and crew drilling.  Taking field
measurements of a soil core.
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