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Site B on the shores of Skiatook Lake, Okla., is still active, and has a tank battery containing produced water (brine) and oil. The brine is disposed of in the subsurface with this onsite injection well (one of two). Deep-well injection regulations require that injection wells be completed in aquifers with total dissolved solids greater than 10,000 mg/L (milligrams per liter) -- from the Osage-Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research Project
Comparing the bioavailability of dissolved organic carbon in different aquifer systems: Chapelle, F.H., Bradley, P.M., McMahon, P.B., Kaiser, K., and Benner, R., Ground Water (IN PRESS).
USGS, University of Texas at El Paso, and the Mountain Studies Institute conducted a field trip on Acid Rock Drainage in the San Juans in Prospect Gulch, near Silverton, Colorado, on August 1, 2009.