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APPENDIX G
SynTerra
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
FOR
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
DECEMBER 2019
PREPARED FOR
DUKE
ENERGY,:
CAROLINAS
DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS,, LLC
INVESTIGATORS
RONALD W. FALTA, PH. D. - FALTA ENVIRONMENTAL LLC
REGINA GRAZIANO, M.S. - SYNTERRA CORPORATION
YOEL GEBRAI, M.S. - SYNTERRA CORPORATION
JOHNATHAN EBENHACK, M.S. - SYNTERRA CORPORATION
LAWRENCE C. MURDOCH, PH.D. - FRx, INC.
BONG YU, PH. D. - SYNTERRA CORPORATION
Updated Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling Report December 2019
Marshall Steam Station, Terrell, North Carolina
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This groundwater flow and transport model report provides basic model development
information and simulations of basin closure designs as well as results of corrective
action simulations for the Marshall Steam Station (MSS, Marshall, Site, Station). Duke
Energy Carolinas, LLC (Duke Energy) owns and operates the MSS located in Terrell,
Catawba County, North Carolina. Operation of MSS began in 1965. Four coal-fired
units currently are in operation there. Operation of the first two units began in 1965
and 1966 with a capacity of 350 megawatts (MW) each. Operation of the second two
units began in 1969 and 1970 with a capacity of 648 MW each. The current electricity -
generating capacity is 2,090 MW. Wastewater and coal combustion residuals (CCRs)
have historically been managed in the Site's ash basin, on -Site landfills, and as
structural fills. Inorganic compounds in the wastewater and ash have dissolved and
have migrated in groundwater downgradient of the ash basin.
Numerical simulations of groundwater flow and transport have been calibrated to pre -
decanted conditions and used to evaluate different scenarios being considered as
options for closure of the ash basin and remediation of the groundwater. The predictive
simulations presented herein are not intended to represent a final detailed closure or
groundwater remediation design. These simulations use conceptual designs that are
subject to change as the closure and remediation plans are finalized. The simulations
are intended to show the key characteristics of groundwater flow and mobile
constituent transport that are expected to result from the closure of the ash basin and
groundwater remediation. It should be noted that, for groundwater modeling
purposes, a reasonable assumption was made about initiation dates for each of the
closure and groundwater remediation options. The assumed dates were based on
information that is currently evolving and might vary from dates provided in
contemporary documents. The potential variance in closure dates presented in the
groundwater model is inconsequential to the results of the model. This modeling report
is intended to provide basic model development information and simulations of
conceptual basin closure and groundwater remediation designs.
The model simulations were developed using flow and transport models MODFLOW
and MT3DMS. Boron was the constituent of interest (COI) selected to estimate the time
to achieve compliance because it is mobile in groundwater and tends to have the largest
extent of migration. Total dissolved solids (TDS) was also modeled because it is a
conservative COI also migrating in groundwater out of the ash basin. Strontium is
included in the model simulations also. Strontium is a more geochemically controlled
constituent with relatively greater background values in the Piedmont geologic region.
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These characteristics make it difficult to calibrate the model to observed strontium
concentrations. Other less mobile, more geochemically controlled constituents (i.e.
arsenic, selenium, and chromium) will follow the same flow path as that of boron, but
to a lesser extent. The less mobile, geochemically controlled constituents do not have
discernable plumes and are modeled separately using a geochemical model.
This report describes refinements that have improved the accuracy and resolution of
details in the model of the Marshall site since previous versions (HDR, 2016; SynTerra
2018b). The model includes recent revisions to the designs of the closure scenarios
developed by AECOM. The model includes data from new deep wells located along
the dam. The grid has been refined in some areas to improve the model calibration
results. A comprehensive dataset (through the first quarter of 2019) of hydraulic heads
and boron concentrations was used to recalibrate the model. The model also considers
groundwater corrective action.
Results of the simulations indicate that boron concentrations in groundwater greater
than the 02L standard— in North Carolina Administrative Code, Title 15A, Subchapter
02L, Groundwater Classification and Standards (02L) — are present southeast of the ash
basin. The presence of boron beyond the compliance boundary and beneath Lake
Norman is predicted, although there are no data available to verify the predicted
concentrations beneath Lake Norman. Boron concentrations greater than the 02L
standard are also present north of the dam. Dropping the hydraulic head in the ash
basin by decanting and subsequent closure will reduce the driving force for further
migration of boron, but will not have a significant effect on the pre -decanting boron
distribution in locations where there are boron concentrations greater than 02L. After
ash basin decanting, hydraulic gradients become gradual near the ash basin dam, and
are largely controlled by the nearby Lake Norman. Proposed groundwater corrective
action, however, can reverse the gradients and recover boron that has migrated beyond
the 02L compliance boundary.
The simulations include an evaluation of two ash basin closure scenarios, one that
involves closure -by -excavation and another that involves a final cover system closure -
in -place design. Additional predictive simulations of the two closure scenarios with
remediation that achieves 02L compliance approximately nine years after of operation
are also considered. The remediation design modeled in these scenarios uses both
extraction and clean water infiltration to achieve compliance. Modeling results suggest
that extraction alone might not achieve compliance in a reasonable timeframe due to the
limited effect that extraction systems have on COIs present in the unsaturated zone.
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The results of the closure simulations for the closure -by -excavation design and final
cover system closure -in -place (in the absence of groundwater remediation) design are
summarized by the distributions of the maximum boron concentration 14 years after
closure (closure -in -place), 3 years before closure (closure -by -excavation), 164 years after
closure (closure -in -place), and 147 years after closure (closure -by -excavation) (Figure
ES-1) and by the time series of boron concentrations at two representative locations
downgradient of the ash basin (Figure ES-1 and Figure ES-2). These predictive
simulation results show the boron distribution several decades after closure in addition
to a long-term prediction over a century after closure.
Results of the simulations show the extent of where the boron concentration in
groundwater is greater than the 02L standard. For both closure scenarios, the boron
plume is present beyond the compliance boundary 3 years prior to closure for the
closure -by -excavation scenario and 14 years post -closure for the closure -in -place
scenario (Figure ES-1). The boron plume remains present in concentrations greater than
the 02L standard beyond the compliance boundary 147 years post -closure for the
closure -by -excavation scenario and 164 years post -closure for the closure -in -place
scenario (Figure ES-1). The maximum boron concentration comparisons indicate the
closure scenarios have a similar degree of effectiveness in reducing plume migration
beyond the compliance boundary for the excavation and closure -in -place system
designs (Figure ES-1 and ES-2). The time needed to achieve compliance with the 02L
standard at the compliance boundary is more than 200 years for both the closure -by -
excavation design and the closure -in -place design without additional groundwater
corrective action.
Two reference locations downgradient of the ash basin are used to evaluate changes in
boron concentrations over time for the two closure designs in the absence of
groundwater remediation (Figure ES-1 and ES-2). The boron concentrations are
decreasing with time for both closure scenarios. The time to reach compliance is
predicted to be more than 200 years for both closure scenarios although the closure -by -
excavation design is predicted to reach compliance decades earlier at Point 1. At Point 2,
boron is decreasing with time at a similar rate for both closure scenarios. The time to
reach compliance will be considerably more than 200 years for both scenarios and there
is a marginal difference between the two time series curves
The effect of active remediation on each of the closure scenarios is presented in Figure
ES-3. The considered remediation design consists of 66 extraction wells pumping at a
total extraction rate of 652 gallons per minute (gpm) and 24 clean water infiltration
wells infiltrating clean water at a combined rate of 285 gpm. The results show a
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significant reduction in the time to reach compliance for both scenarios to within 9 years
from the start of remediation. There is only a slight difference between the performance
of the closure -by -excavation design and the closure -in -place design.
Data from recent ash pore water and saprolite pumping tests and new deep bedrock
wells near the ash basin dam were included in this revision of the model. Analyses of
the numerical and analytical pumping tests indicate that the average hydraulic
conductivity of the ash ranges from 0.3 feet per day (ft/d) to 4.5 ft/d in the vicinity of the
pumping test wells. It was assumed that this general distribution is representative of
the hydraulic conductivity of the ash and an averaged value of 2 ft/d was used
throughout the basin.
Six new deep bedrock wells (AB-1BRLLL, AB-213R, AB-10BRL, AL-1BRL, AL-2BRLLL,
MW-14BRL) were drilled and are included in this model to reduce the uncertainty in
model predictions in the deep bedrock. Four wells (AB-2BR, AB-10BRL, AL-1BRL, and
MW-14BRL) were drilled to a total depth of 300 feet and two wells (AB-1BRLLL and
AL-2BRLLL) to a total depth of 500 feet. AL-1BRL and MW-14BRL are near the Phase I
Landfill and AB-10BRL and AL-2BRLLL are in or near the Phase II Landfill. AB-2BR
and AB-1BRLLL were installed on the dam. The boron concentration was at or less than
the detection limit in each of these deep bedrock wells. The model is calibrated to
replicate the sampled boron concentrations at these wells.
The model simulations indicate that there are no exposure pathways associated with the
groundwater flow through the ash basin and the water supply wells used for water
supply in the vicinity of the Marshall site. Water supply wells are outside, or
upgradient of the groundwater flow system that contains the ash basin. Groundwater
migration of constituents from the ash basin does not affect water supply wells under
pre -decanted conditions or pre -closure conditions, or in the future under the different
closure scenarios simulated.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION
PAGE
ExecutiveSummary.............................................................................................................. ES-1
1.0 Introduction..................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 General Setting and Background........................................................................1-1
1.2 Objectives................................................................................................................1-4
2.0 Conceptual Model........................................................................................................2-1
2.1
Aquifer System Framework.................................................................................2-1
2.2
Groundwater Flow System..................................................................................
2-1
2.3
Hydrologic Boundaries.........................................................................................
2-2
2.4
Hydraulic Boundaries...........................................................................................
2-2
2.5
Sources and Sinks..................................................................................................
2-2
2.6
Water Budget.........................................................................................................
2-3
2.7
Modeled Constituents of Interest........................................................................
2-3
2.8
Constituent Transport...........................................................................................
2-3
3.0 Computer
Model..........................................................................................................3-1
3.1
Model Selection......................................................................................................3-1
3.2
Model Description.................................................................................................3-1
4.0 Groundwater
Flow And Transport Model Construction.....................................4-1
4.1
Model Domain and Grid...................................................................................... 4-1
4.2
Hydraulic Parameters...........................................................................................
4-3
4.3
Flow Model Boundary Conditions.....................................................................
4-4
4.4
Flow Model Sources and Sinks............................................................................4-4
4.5
Flow Model Calibration Targets.........................................................................4-6
4.6
Transport Model Parameters...............................................................................
4-6
4.7
Transport Model Boundary Conditions.............................................................4-9
4.8
Transport Model Sources and Sinks...................................................................
4-9
4.9
Transport Model Calibration Targets...............................................................4-10
5.0 Model Calibration To Pre -decanted Conditions....................................................5-1
5.1 Flow Model Calibration........................................................................................ 5-1
5.2 Flow Model Sensitivity Analysis......................................................................... 5-4
5.3 Historical Transport Model Calibration............................................................. 5-4
5.4 Transport Model Sensitivity Analysis................................................................ 5-7
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONTINUED)
SECTION
PAGE
6.0 Predictive Simulations Of Closure Scenarios........................................................ 6-1
6.1 Interim Models with Ash Basin Decanted (2021-2036 or 2021-2053) ............. 6-1
6.2 Closure -in -place with Monitored Natural Attenuation ................................... 6-2
6.3 Closure -in -place with Active Remediation........................................................ 6-4
6.4 Closure -by -Excavation with Monitored Natural Attenuation ....................... 6-5
6.5 Closure -by -Excavation with Active Remediation............................................ 6-7
6.6 Conclusions Drawn from the Predictive Simulations ...................................... 6-8
7.0 References......................................................................................................................7-1
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure ES-1 Comparison of simulated maximum boron concentrations (µg/L) in
all non -ash layers for both closure scenarios
Figure ES-2 Summary of maximum boron concentrations as functions of time
for both closure scenarios
Figure ES-3 Comparison of simulated maximum boron concentrations in all
non -ash layers for both closure scenarios with active remediation
Figure 1-1 USGS location map, Marshall Steam Station, Terrell, NC
Figure 4-1 Numerical model domain
Figure 4-2 Fence diagram of the 3D hydrostratigraphic model
Figure 4-3 Computational grid used in the model
Figure 4-4 Hydraulic conductivity estimated from slug tests performed in ash
at 14 sites in North Carolina
Figure 4-5 Hydraulic conductivity estimated using slug tests performed in
saprolite at 10 Piedmont sites in North Carolina
Figure 4-6 Hydraulic conductivity estimated using slug tests performed in the
transition zone at 10 Piedmont sites in North Carolina
Figure 4-7 Hydraulic conductivity estimated using slug tests performed in
fractured rock at 10 Piedmont sites in North Carolina
Figure 4-8
Distribution of model recharge zones
Figure 4-9
Model surface water features outside of the ash basin area
Figure 4-10
Model surface water features in the ash basin area
Figure 4-11
Water supply wells in the model area
Figure 5-1
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in ash layer 2
Figure 5-2
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in saprolite layer 5
Figure 5-3
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in saprolite layer 6
Figure 5-4
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in saprolite layer 7
Figure 5-5
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in saprolite layer 8
Figure 5-6
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in transition zone layer 9
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LIST OF FIGURES (CONTINUED)
Figure 5-7
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in upper fractured bedrock
layer 10
Figure 5-8
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in upper fractured bedrock
layer 11
Figure 5-9
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in upper fractured bedrock
layer 12
Figure 5-10
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in upper fractured bedrock
layer 13
Figure 5-11
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in fractured bedrock model
layers 14-16
Figure 5-12
Model hydraulic conductivity zones in deep bedrock model layers
17-21
Figure 5-13
Comparison of observed and computed heads from the calibrated
steady state flow model
Figure 5-14
Simulated heads in the transition zone layer 9
Figure 5-15
Simulated heads in the upper fractured bedrock
layer 10
Figure 5-16
Simulated heads prior to decanting with calibration targets in the
upper fractured bedrock layer
Figure 5-17
Groundwater divide and flow directions under pre -decanted
conditions at the MSS
Figure 5-18 COI ash basin source zones
Figure 5-19 COI landfill source zones
Figure 5-20 Simulated maximum boron concentrations (µg/L) in all non -ash
layers prior to decanting
Figure 5-21 Simulated maximum TDS concentrations (mg/L) in all non -ash
layers prior to decanting
Figure 5-22 Simulated maximum strontium concentrations (µg/L) in all non -ash
layers prior to decanting
Figure 6-1 Simulated hydraulic heads in the transition zone after decanting
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LIST OF FIGURES (CONTINUED)
Figure 6-2 Simulated maximum boron concentrations in all non -ash layers
after decanting
Figure 6-3 Closure -in -place closure design used in simulations
Figure 6-4 Drains used in the closure -in -place design
Figure 6-5 Simulated hydraulic heads for the closure -in -place scenario
Figure 6-6 a,b,c,d Simulated maximum boron concentrations in all non -ash layers 14
years post -closure (a), 64 years post -closure (b), 114 years post -
closure (c), 164 years post -closure (d) for the closure -in -place
scenario
Figure 6-7 a,b Simulated maximum strontium and TDS concentrations in all non
ash layers 14 years post -closure for the closure -in -place scenario
Figure 6-8
Simulated hydraulic heads in the transition zone with active
groundwater remediation for the closure -in -place scenario
Figure 6-9 a,b,c,d
Simulated boron concentrations in all non -ash layers after 9 years
of active remediation (a), 29 years of active remediation (b), 79
years of active remediation (c), 129 years of active remediation (d),
and 179 years of active remediation (e) for the closure -in -place
scenario with active groundwater remediation
Figure 6-10 a,b
Simulated maximum strontium and TDS concentrations in all non -
ash layers for the closure -in -place scenario after 9 years of active
groundwater remediation
Figure 6-11
Closure -by -excavation design used in simulations (from AECOM,
2019)
Figure 6-12
Drain network used in closure -by -excavation simulations
Figure 6-13
Simulated hydraulic heads in the transition zone after closure -by -
excavation
Figure 6-14 a,b,c,d
Simulated maximum boron concentrations in all non -ash layers in 3
years prior to closure (a), 47 years post -closure (b), 97 years post -
closure (c), 147 years post -closure (d) for the closure -by -excavation
scenario
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LIST OF FIGURES (CONTINUED)
Figure 6-15 a,b Simulated maximum strontium and TDS concentrations in all non -
ash layer 3 years prior to closure for the closure -by -excavation
scenario
Figure 6-16 Simulated hydraulic heads in the transition zone with active
groundwater remediation for the closure -by -excavation scenario
Figure 6-17 a,b,c,d Simulated maximum boron concentrations in all non -ash layers
after 9 years of active remediation (a), 29 years of active
remediation (b), 79 years of active remediation (c), 129 years of
active remediation (d), 179 years of active remediation (e) for the
closure -by -excavation scenario with active groundwater
remediation
Figure 6-18 a,b Simulated maximum strontium and TDS concentrations in all non -
ash layer after 9 years of active remediation for the closure -by -
excavation scenario with active remediation
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 5-1 Comparison of observed and computed heads for the calibrated flow
model
Table 5-2 Calibrated hydraulic parameters
Table 5-3 Water balance on the groundwater flow system for pre -decanted
conditions
Table 5-4 Flow model sensitivity analysis
Table 5-5a-c Ash basin boron, TDS, and strontium source concentrations used in
historical transport model
Table 5-6a-c Landfill boron, TDS, and strontium source concentrations used in
historical transport model
Table 5-7a-c Observed and computed boron, strontium, and TDS in monitoring wells
Table 5-8 Transport model sensitivity to the boron Ka values
Table 6-1 Water balance on the groundwater flow system for decanted conditions
Table 6-2 Groundwater clean infiltration and extraction well information
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1.0 INTRODUCTION
This groundwater flow and transport model report provides basic model development
information and simulations of basin closure designs as well as results of corrective
action simulations for the Marshall Steam Station (MSS, Marshall, Station, or Site). Duke
Energy Carolinas, LLC (Duke Energy) owns and operates the MSS located in Terrell,
Catawba County, North Carolina (Figure 1-1). MSS is a four -unit coal-fired electricity -
generating plant with a combined capacity of 2,090 megawatts (MW). Commercial
operations at Marshall Steam Station began in 1965 with Unit 1 (350 MW) followed by
operation of Unit 2 (350 MW) beginning in 1966. Operation of Unit 3 (648 MW) began
in 1969, and operation of Unit 4 (648 MW) began in 1970. Cooling water for MSS is
provided by Lake Norman. Coal combustion residuals (CCRs), composed primarily of
fly ash and bottom ash, have historically been managed in the Site ash basin, which was
constructed in 1965, immediately north of the plant.
The ash basin is located east of a topographic divide along Sherrills Ford Road and
south of a topographic divide along Island Point Road. Dry ash has been stored in
other areas at the Site, including the unlined Dry Ash Landfill Phase I and Phase II
(Permit No. 1804-INDUS-1983), the lined Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Landfill
(Permit No. 1809-INDUS-), and the double -lined Industrial Landfill No. 1 (Permit No.
1812-INDUS-2008). Ash was used as structural fill in the Photovoltaic (PV) Structural
Fill (State Permit No. CCB0031), the road next to and within the ash basin leading up to
the PV Structural Fill (State Permit No. CCB0030), and beneath parts of the Industrial
Landfill No. 1 (State Permit No. CCB0072). Inorganic compounds in the ash have
dissolved and have been transported in groundwater in the vicinity of the ash basin.
Numerical simulations of groundwater flow and transport have been calibrated to pre -
decanted conditions and used to evaluate different scenarios being considered as
scenarios for closure of the ash basin and remediation of the groundwater. The
methods and results of those simulations are described in this report.
1.1 General Setting and Background
The Site is located in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. The topography in the
area is hilly with elevations ranging from a high of about 910 feet' near the intersection
of Sherrills Ford Road and Island Point Road to a low of about 756 feet at Lake Norman.
Lake Norman, which serves as the cooling lake for the Station, has a full pool elevation
of 760 feet, but the actual water level fluctuates between about 752 feet and 760 feet.
Sherrills Ford Road and Island Point Road are located along topographic ridges that act
as groundwater divides west and north of the ash basin and landfills. The topography
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slopes downward and southeast toward Lake Norman. The ash basin dam is located
immediately adjacent to Lake Norman. The water level of the ponded ash basin water
has typically been maintained at an elevation of 789 feet. The ponded ash basin water is
currently being decanted and this activity is expected to be completed by March 2021.
Coal combustion residuals (CCR) were historically sluiced to the ash basin. The ash
basin consists of a single cell that was formed by damming the former Holdsclaw Creek
near where the creek historically entered the Catawba River. The basin has a dendritic
shape with coves of deposited ash. Approximately 394 acres are within the ash basin
waste boundary. All coal ash from the MSS was sluiced to the ash basin from 1965 until
1984. Since 1984, fly ash has mainly been disposed of in the Site ash landfills. Sluicing
of bottom ash to the ash basin has recently been discontinued. Wastewater from the ash
basin is discharged to Lake Norman by National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) permitted Outfall 002 (NC0004987).
Two unlined ash landfills, the Phase I Dry Ash Landfill and the Phase II Dry Ash
Landfill, are located near and partially within the ash basin. The Phase I Dry Ash
Landfill contains about 522,000 tons of fly ash, which was placed from 1984 to 1986.
The Phase I Dry Ash Landfill is located just east of the ash basin, near the ash basin dam
and Lake Norman. The Phase II Dry Ash Landfill contains about 4,877,280 tons of fly
ash and is located in the northeast part of the ash basin. The Phase II Dry Ash Landfill
received fly ash starting in 1986 and was completed in 1999. The Phase II Dry Ash
Landfill was built over part of the existing ash basin in the northeast part of the basin.
These landfills were closed with a soil cover system.
The PV Structural Fill, consisting of compacted fly ash, was constructed between 2000
and 2013 in the northwestern part of the ash basin. This PV Structural Fill was built
over part of the existing ash basin. This fill was closed with a soil cover system. The
Industrial Landfill No. 1 is located adjacent to the northern part of the ash basin, south
of Island Point Road. This landfill has a three -component liner with leak detection and
leachate collection. Stormwater and leachate from the landfill are collected and piped
to the Lined Retention Basin (LRB).
The subsurface at the Site is composed of three primary flow zones. The shallow zone
is residual soil consisting primarily of saprolite, which forms when bedrock is
weathered in place. Below the saprolite zone is a transition zone consisting of less
weathered and highly fractured bedrock. Bedrock, present below the transition zone,
generally is fractured with decreased fracturing with depth. Typically, the saprolite is
partially saturated and the water table fluctuates within it. Water movement is
generally preferential through the weathered and fractured bedrock of the transition
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zone (i.e., enhanced permeability zone). Groundwater within the Site area exists under
unconfined, or water table, conditions within the saprolite and transition zone, and in
fractures and joints of the underlying bedrock. The shallow water table and bedrock
water -bearing zones are interconnected. The saprolite, where saturated thickness is
sufficient, acts as a reservoir for supplying groundwater to the fractures and joints in
the bedrock. Shallow groundwater generally flows from local recharge zones in
topographically high areas, such as ridges, toward groundwater discharge zones, such
as stream valleys and Lake Norman.
The groundwater flow and transport model for the Site has been under development
since 2015. The development process began with a steady-state groundwater flow
model and a transient model of constituent transport that were calibrated to field
observations resulting from an extensive site assessment in early and mid-2015. The
first set of simulations was completed in March 2016 (HDR, 2016). The present model
domain has been greatly expanded compared to the 2016 model, and the number of
model layers has been doubled. The earlier model was calibrated to hydraulic heads
and COI concentrations measured in 2015. Since that time, significant Site activities
have taken place including the installation of many additional monitoring wells. The
current model has been accordingly revised with respect to the 2015 model. These
additional data have further improved the predictive capability and reduced
uncertainty in the model results. To take advantage of this potential, the model was
recalibrated using data from both the new and existing groundwater wells.
The following data sources were used during calibration of the revised groundwater
flow and transport model:
• Average Site -wide water levels measured in Coal Ash Management Act
(CAMA)/CCR/compliance groundwater monitoring wells through the first
quarter of 2019.
• Groundwater quality data obtained from CAMA/CCR/compliance sampling
events conducted in the first quarter of 2019
• Hydrogeologic data described in the Comprehensive Site Assessment (CSA)
reports completed in 2015 (HDR, 2015) and 2018 (SynTerra, 2018a)
• Ash basin pumping tests in ash and saprolite
• Deep bedrock wells
• Surface water elevations provided by Duke Energy
• Water supply well information provided by Duke Energy
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This study consists of three main activities: developing a calibrated steady-state flow
model of pre -decanted conditions, developing a historical transient model of COI
transport that is calibrated to pre -decanted conditions, and performing predictive
simulations of the possible closure and groundwater remediation actions at the Site.
The predictive simulations include consideration of two different closure scenarios:
closure -in -place and closure -by -excavation. In both of the closure scenarios ash is
excavated from the Phase I Dry Ash Landfill. In the closure -in -place scenario, a low
permeability final cover system is built over the ash in the ash basin, the Phase II Dry
Ash Landfill, and the PV Structural Fill. In the excavation scenario ash is excavated
from the ash basin, and a final cover system is built over the Phase II Dry Ash Landfill,
and the PV Structural Fill.
1.2 Objectives
The overall objectives of the groundwater flow and transport modeling are to predict
the performance of the two closure scenarios and groundwater remediation designs,
and to guide decisions during the selection of closure and groundwater remediation
actions. The flow and transport models have been undergoing a process of continuous
improvement and refinement by including new field data. The continuous
improvement process is designed to increase the accuracy and reliability of the
performance predictions.
This report describes the results of the most recent refinement of the flow and transport
models. These models were developed in early and mid-2019 using data through the
first quarter of 2019.
The predictive simulations shown in this report are not intended to represent a final
detailed closure or groundwater remediation design. These simulations use conceptual
designs that are subject to change as the closure and remediation plans are finalized.
The simulations are intended to show the key characteristics of groundwater flow and
mobile constituent transport that are expected to result from the closure and
remediation actions.
The predictive simulations in this report are an evaluation of the closure scenario
designs and assumptions as of September 2019. Closure designs might have been
refined since then, due in part to results from the simulations. The predictive
simulations in this report characterize the most recent closure design available when the
model was developed, but the design process is ongoing and some aspects of the
simulations might differ from the most current closure design.
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2.0 CONCEPTUAL MODEL
The conceptual site model for the Marshall site is based primarily on the 2015
Comprehensive Site Assessment report (HDR, 2015) and the 2018 Comprehensive Site
Assessment Update (2018 CSA) for the MSS (SynTerra, 2018c) and the Corrective Action
Plan (CAP) Update (SynTerra, 2019). These reports contain extensive detail and data
related to most aspects of the conceptual site model that are used here. Data collected
since the 2018 CSA submittal is also included in the model.
2.1 Aquifer System Framework
The aquifer system at the Site consists of an unconfined aquifer. Depending on the local
topography and hydrogeology, the water table surface might exist in the saprolite, the
transition zone, or the fractured bedrock. At some isolated locations along streambeds,
the upper unit (saprolite) is absent. At other locations, the upper unit might be
unsaturated, with the water table located in deeper units (transition zone and fractured
bedrock).
The hydraulic conductivity at the Site has been measured in a series of slug tests in the
different units. Twenty-seven (27) slug tests were performed in the coal ash, with
measured conductivities ranging from 0.007 ft/d to 199 ft/d. Thirty-eight (38) slug tests
performed in saprolite wells yielded hydraulic conductivities ranging from 0.004 ft/d to
137 ft/d. Seventy (70) slug tests performed in transition zone wells yielded results
ranging from 0.001 ft/d to 35 ft/d. Twenty-six (26) slug tests conducted in bedrock wells
indicate hydraulic conductivity values ranging from 0.07 ft/d to 38 ft/d. The range of
observed conductivity in the saprolite, transition zone, and bedrock highlights the large
degree of heterogeneity in the system.
2.2 Groundwater Flow System
The unconfined groundwater system at the Site is dominated by flow due to recharge
that falls within a watershed roughly defined by Sherrills Ford Road to the west, Island
Point Road to the north, and by a ridge to the east of the ash basin. Within this area,
groundwater flows toward the ash basin, and then toward Lake Norman, or a nearby
small creek, where it ultimately discharges. The ponded ash basin water was
maintained at an elevation of about 789 feet prior to decanting, which is about 33 feet
above the typical water elevation in the adjacent Lake Norman. The higher hydraulic
head in the ponded ash basin water caused some groundwater flow through the small
ridge to the east of the ash basin near the dam. Groundwater flowing through this
ridge discharges to the small stream and cove of Lake Norman east of the ash basin.
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The groundwater system is recharged from infiltrating precipitation, and from water
that infiltrates from the ponded ash basin water. The average value of recharge in the
vicinity of the MSS was estimated at 8 inches per year (in/yr). The North Carolina map
of recharge by Haven (2003) does not show values for Catawba County, but the average
value in nearby counties is consistent with this estimate. A reduced rate of recharge (1
inch per year) was assumed for the power plant, and an infiltration rate of zero was
assumed for the constructed wetland areas (which have an underlying geomembrane)
and the lined Industrial and FGD landfills.
There are three public supply wells and 80 private water wells that have been identified
within a half -mile of the ash basin compliance boundary (SynTerra, 2018a). Most of
these wells are located west of the Site, along Sherrills Ford Road, and south of the Site,
along NC Highway 150. A few wells are located at residences along Island Point Road,
north of the Site. Pumping rates for the private wells were not available, and
completion depths were available for only about 20 of the wells.
2.3 Hydrologic Boundaries
The major discharging locations for the shallow water system serve as hydrologic
boundaries to the shallow groundwater system. Lake Norman is the major hydrologic
boundary in the area.
2.4 Hydraulic Boundaries
The shallow groundwater system does not appear to contain impermeable barriers or
boundaries in the study area, but it does include hydraulic boundaries between zones of
different hydraulic conductivity. The degree of fracturing, and thus the hydraulic
conductivity, is expected to decrease with depth in metamorphic rock. This will result
in blocks of unfractured rock where the hydraulic conductivity is quite low to
negligible. However, isolated fractures might occur that result in large local hydraulic
conductivities, and the locations of these fractures are difficult to predict or to
comprehensively map. It was assumed that the rock was impermeable below the depth
of the bottom modeled layer, and a no -flow boundary was used to represent this
condition.
2.5 Sources and Sinks
Groundwater flow from areal recharge (rainfall infiltration) and flow out of the ponded
ash basin water are sources of water to the groundwater system. Groundwater in the
model domain discharges to Lake Norman, and to small streams and drainages. These
small streams and drainages are located primarily outside of the ash basin around the
periphery of the model. The water supply wells within the model area remove only a
small amount of water from the overall hydrologic system.
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2.6 Water Budget
The long-term average rate of water inflow to the study area is equal to the rate of water
outflow from the study area. Water enters the groundwater system from recharge and
the ponded ash basin water. Water leaves the system through discharge to Lake
Norman and several small creeks, and through private wells.
2.7 Modeled Constituents of Interest
Antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium (hexavalent and
total), cobalt, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, sulfate, TDS,
thallium, and vanadium have been identified as constituents of interest (COIs) for
groundwater at the Site (SynTerra, 2017).
Three COIs that are present beyond the compliance boundary were selected for
modeling. The COIs selected consist of boron, TDS, and strontium. Of those three
constituents, boron is the most prevalent in groundwater. Boron is present at
significant concentrations in the ash basin and near and beneath the Phase I and Phase
II Dry Ash Landfills, and the PV Structural Fill. A small boron plume extends to
monitoring wells south and east of the ash basin near the ash basin dam. Boron is
found in monitoring wells screened in the saprolite, the transition zone, and the
bedrock. Boron concentrations in background monitoring wells are less than the .0202
Groundwater Quality Standard - in North Carolina Administrative Code (NCAC), Title
15A, Subchapter 02L, Groundwater Classification Standards (02L) - and are generally
less than the laboratory detection limit. TDS is not as prevalent as boron, but it is
present greater than the 02L standard in the vicinity of the ash basin and is included in
the modeling of the Site. Attenuation for these conservative COIs primarily occurs
through physical means (i.e., dispersion and dilution). Strontium transport is also
simulated, however since it is a more geochemically controlled constituent and can
have fairly high background concentrations in the Piedmont, emphasis was primarily
placed on the more conservative COIs during the calibration. This report will focus
primarily on boron because it is the dominant mobile constituent but includes results
for TDS and strontium.
2.8 Constituent Transport
The COIs that are present in the coal ash dissolve into the ash pore water. As water
infiltrates through the ash, water containing COIs can enter the groundwater system.
Once in the groundwater system, the COIs are transported by advection and dispersion,
subject to retardation due to adsorption to solids. If the COIs reach a hydrologic
boundary or water sink, they are removed from the groundwater system, and they
enter the surface water system, where in general, they are greatly diluted. At this Site,
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boron and TDS are the primary constituents considered that are migrating from the ash
basin. The less mobile, more geochemically controlled constituents (i.e., arsenic,
selenium, and chromium) will follow the same flow path as that of boron, but to a lesser
extent. Of the less mobile, more geochemically controlled constituents, the only one
considered in this report is strontium, while others do not have discernable plumes and
are modeled separately using a geochemical model.
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3.0 COMPUTER MODEL
3.1 Model Selection
The numerical groundwater flow model was developed using MODFLOW (McDonald
and Harbaugh, 1988), a three-dimensional (31)) finite difference groundwater model
created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The chemical transport model
is the Modular 3-D Transport Multi -Species (MT3DMS) model (Zheng and Wang, 1999).
MODFLOW and MT3DMS are widely used in industry and government, and are
considered to be industry standards. The models were assembled using the Aquaveo
GMS 10.4 graphical user interface (http://www.aquaveo.com/).
3.2 Model Description
MODFLOW uses Darcy's law and the conservation of mass to derive water balance
equations for each finite difference cell. MODFLOW considers 3D transient
groundwater flow in confined and unconfined heterogeneous systems, and it can
include dynamic interaction with pumping wells, recharge, evapotranspiration, rivers,
streams, springs, lakes, and swamps.
Several versions of MODFLOW have been developed since its inception. This study
uses the MODFLOW-NWT version (Niswonger, et al., 2011). The NWT version of
MODFLOW provides improved numerical stability and accuracy for modeling
problems with variable water tables. That improved capability is helpful in the present
work where the position of the water table in the ash basin can fluctuate depending on
the conditions under which the basin is operated and on the closure activities.
Some of the Site's flow models were challenging to run due to the topography and
layers that become unsaturated in the model. It was found that using the NWT solver
options "MODERATE" with the xMD matrix solver could overcome these difficulties.
MT3DMS uses the groundwater flow field from MODFLOW to simulate 3D advection
and dispersion of the dissolved COIs, including the effects of retardation due to COI
adsorption on the soil and rock matrix.
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4.0 GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL
CONSTRUCTION
The flow and transport model of the Site was built through a series of steps:
• Step 1: Build a 3D model of the Site hydrostratigraphy based on field data.
• Step 2: Determine the model domain and construct the numerical grid.
• Step 3: Populate the numerical grid with flow parameters.
• Step 4: Conduct calibration round 1, which includes adjustment of the numerical
grid.
• Step 5: Develop a transient model of constituent transport development.
• Step 6: Conduct calibration round 2 to ensure the flow model matches the
observed heads and the transient model reproduces the observed plumes.
4.1 Model Domain and Grid
The initial steps in the model grid generation process were the determination of the
model domain, and the construction of a 3D hydrostratigraphic model. The model has
dimensions of about 3 miles by 3 miles and uses a north -south orientation (Figure 4-1).
The model is generally bounded to the east by Lake Norman, which also forms part of
the northern and southern boundary. To the west, the model boundary is more than a
half -mile from the ash basin, and it is separated from the ash basin by a major
topographic ridge that runs along Sherrills Ford Road, and by creek drainages located
west of Sherrills Ford Road. The northern boundary is located beyond the topographic
ridge that runs along Island Point Road, and it extends either to Lake Norman, or to a
location beyond a creek drainage that runs into Lake Norman. The southern boundary
is nearly a mile from the ash basin, and it extends to Lake Norman on both the eastern
and the extreme western sides. The distance to the boundary from the ash basin is large
enough to prevent boundary conditions from artificially affecting the results near the
basin.
The ground surface of the model was developed by HDR and was interpolated from the
North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program's 2010 Light Detection and Ranging
(LiDAR) elevation data. These data were supplemented by on -Site surveys conducted
by Duke Energy in 2014. The elevations used for the top of the ash surface in the ash
basin were modified from the topographic and bathymetric data to provide a model
surface that can accommodate planned regrading of ash for the closure -in -place closure
scenario. For pre -decanted conditions simulations, the portions of the ash basin that
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have ponded water above the ash are given a large hydraulic conductivity to represent
the open -water conditions.
The hydrostratigraphic model (called a solids model in GMS) consists of five units: ash,
saprolite, transition zone, upper fractured bedrock, and deeper bedrock. The contact
elevations between these units were determined from boring logs from previous studies
by HDR (2016). The contact elevations were estimated by HDR for locations where well
logs were not available by extrapolation of the borehole data using the Leapfrog Hydro
geologic modeling tool. This program was used by HDR to develop surfaces defining
the top of the saprolite, transition zone, and bedrock. While the contacts between the
upper units (ash, saprolite, transition zone, bedrock) are well defined, the division of
the bedrock into an upper fractured zone, a mid -depth bedrock zone and deeper
bedrock was subjective. For the purposes of model construction, the upper fractured
mid -depth zones are both 150 feet thick. The deeper bedrock extends another 250 feet
below the mid -depth zone for a total bedrock thickness of 550 feet in the model. The
upper -level and mid -level bedrock zones in the model were given a heterogeneous
hydraulic conductivity distribution to represent more and less fractured zones.
Figure 4-2 shows a fence diagram of the 3D hydrostratigraphic unit viewed from the
southeast, with a vertical exaggeration of 4x. The light grey material corresponds to the
ash in the basin, the yellow material is the saprolite, the tan material is the transition
zone, the orange material is the upper fractured part of the bedrock, and the dark grey
material is the deep bedrock.
The numerical model grid is shown in Figure 4-3. The grid is discretized in the vertical
direction using the solids model (Figure 4-2) to define the numerical model layers. The
top 4 model layers represent the ash basin, including the dam that forms the basin, the
Phase II Dry Ash Landfill, and the PV Structural Fill. Model layers 5-8 represent the
saprolite except in the Phase I Dry Ash Landfill area, where model layer 5 represents
ash. Model layer 9 represents the transition zone. Model layers 10-13 represent the
upper fractured part of the bedrock, while model layers 14-16 represent mid -depth
parts of the fractured bedrock. The deep bedrock (which may also be fractured) is
represented by model layers 17-21. The model varies in thickness from about 630 feet to
720 feet.
The discretization in the horizontal direction is variable with smaller grid cells in and
around the ash basin area. The minimum horizontal grid spacing in the finely divided
areas is about 30 feet, while the maximum grid spacing near the outer edges of the
model is about 200 feet. The grid contains a total of 1,036,874 active cells in 21 layers.
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4.2 Hydraulic Parameters
The horizontal hydraulic conductivity and the horizontal -to -vertical hydraulic
conductivity anisotropy ratio are the main hydraulic parameters in the model. The
distribution of these parameters is based primarily on the model hydrostratigraphy,
with additional horizontal and vertical variation. Most of the hydraulic parameter
distributions in the model were heterogeneous across a model layer. The geometries
and parameter values of the heterogeneous distributions were determined during the
flow and transport model calibration process. Initial estimates of parameters were
based on experience at other Piedmont sites in North Carolina, literature values, results
of slug and core tests, and simulations performed using a preliminary flow model. The
hydraulic parameter values were adjusted during the flow model calibration process
described in Section 5.0 to provide a best fit to observed water levels in observation
wells and were further refined during calibration of the transport model. Slug test data
from hundreds of wells at the Duke Energy coal ash basin sites in North Carolina are
shown in Figures 4-4 through 4-7.
The hydraulic conductivity of coal ash measured at 14 sites in North Carolina ranges
over about 4 orders of magnitude, with a geometric mean of approximately 1.8 ft/d
(Figure 4-4). Ash hydraulic conductivity values measured in slug tests at Marshall
ranged from 0.001 ft/d to 199 ft/d. The pre -decanted conditions flow model is not very
sensitive to the ash conductivity, but the predicted heads in the closure -in -place
simulations are more sensitive to the ash hydraulic conductivity.
Four pumping tests were conducted within the ash basin including the underlying
saprolite in June 2018 to help refine the value of these unit specific parameters.
Numerical and analytical hydraulic conductivity estimates that range from 0.3 ft/day to
4.5 ft/day were obtained from these solutions, which are plotted in Figure 4-4 (SynTerra
2019a; SynTerra 2019b). An average hydraulic conductivity of approximately 2 ft/d was
used in the model.
The hydraulic conductivities from hundreds of slug tests performed in saprolite wells at
10 Duke Energy sites within the Piedmont are shown in Figure 4-5. These also range
over 4 or more orders of magnitude, and have a geometric mean value of 0.9 ft/d.
Saprolite slug tests performed at Marshall ranged from 0.004 ft/d to 137 ft/d. Transition
zone hydraulic conductivities from hundreds of slug tests at 10 Duke Energy sites
located in the Piedmont are shown in Figure 4-6. These range over 5 orders of
magnitude, with a geometric mean of 0.9 ft/d. The measured values at Marshall range
from 0.001 ft/d to 35 ft/d.
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Fractured bedrock hydraulic conductivities from hundreds of slug tests at 10 Duke
Energy sites within the Piedmont in North Carolina (Figure 4-7) range over 6 orders of
magnitude, with a geometric mean value of 0.3 ft/d. It is possible that this geometric
mean value is larger than the true average value for deep bedrock for three reasons.
First, the bedrock wells at these sites are almost all screened in the uppermost few tens
of feet of the bedrock, which is expected to be more highly fractured than deeper
bedrock zones. Second, the wells are typically screened in zones with visible flowing
fractures, rather than in zones with intact unfractured rock. Finally, wells that do not
produce water are not slug tested. These factors might bias the slug test data to higher
values than might be representative of the deeper bedrock as a whole. At Marshall, the
measured values from slug tests in shallow bedrock ranged from 0.07 ft/d to 38 ft/d.
4.3 Flow Model Boundary Conditions
Lake Norman forms a hydraulic boundary east of the ash basin. The lake is treated as a
high conductance general head boundary in the uppermost active model layer with an
elevation of 756 feet. The lake wraps around the northeastern and southeastern parts of
the model. The western model boundary does not align with any clearly defined
hydraulic features. This boundary is located more than a half -mile from the ash basin,
and there is a major topographic ridge between the model boundary and the basin
along with two deep creek drainages located west of the ridge. Most of the western
boundary is treated as a low conductance general head boundary with the head set to
an elevation of 15 feet below the top of the saprolite, except in stream valleys, where a
no flow boundary is used perpendicular to the streams. The flow in these valleys is
dominated by flow toward the streams, which are modeled as drains. The
southwestern boundary is treated as a no -flow boundary as it crosses stream valleys
approximately perpendicular to the streams, which are treated as drains in the model.
This boundary is also almost a mile away from the ash basin. Model boundaries were
set at appropriate distances from the study area to ensure that boundary effects did not
affect the simulation results in the vicinity of the ash basins.
4.4 Flow Model Sources and Sinks
The flow model sources and sinks consist of Lake Norman, the ponded ash basin water,
recharge, wells, streams, ponds and wet areas that are assumed to directly drain into
the ponded ash basin water.
Recharge is a significant hydrologic parameter in the model, and the distribution of
recharge zones in the model is shown in Figure 4-8. As described in Section 2.2, the
recharge rate for the MSS site was estimated to be 8 in/yr. The recharge rate for the MSS
Plant was set to 1 in/yr due to the large areas of roof and pavement. The ponded ash
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basin water and other ponds in the model are treated as high conductance general head
boundaries. The recharge rate was set to 0 in/yr in the constructed wetlands areas. The
recharge rate through the lined FGD and Industrial landfill covers was set to 0 in/yr.
Lake Norman, the ponded ash basin water, and several smaller ponds were treated as
specified general head zones in the model (Figures 4-9 and 4-10). With this condition,
the hydraulic head is specified, along with a conductance. For large values of
conductance, this condition acts like a specified head boundary condition. The general
head condition was used here because the GMS software can perform external water
balance calculations with the general head boundary condition that it cannot perform
with the specified head condition. Lake Norman is maintained at an elevation of 756
feet and the ponded ash basin water is maintained at an elevation of 789 feet.
The many creeks exert a significant local control on the hydrology in the model. These
features are shown as green lines in Figure 4-9. The position of these creeks was
determined mainly from the topographic map (Figure 1-1), supplemented by a Site visit
during which each drainage feature near the ash basin was inspected. The elevation of
locations along the creeks were determined from the surface LiDAR elevations, and
those elevations were assumed to be 2 feet below the ground surface. The creeks were
simulated using the DRAIN feature in MODFLOW with a high conductance value (100
ft2/d/ft).
The outer "fingers" of the ash basin contains several areas of standing water, along with
the main sluicing channel. Most of these surface water features were treated as general
head boundaries (Figure 4-10). With this condition, the water bodies may add or
remove water from the groundwater system, depending on the hydraulic heads in the
groundwater flow system. Two marshy areas in the ash basin near the Phase II Dry
Ash Landfill were simulated as drains.
Figure 4-11 shows the location of public and private water supply wells in the model
area. There are three public supply wells in the model domain. One well is located at
the plant and is operated by Duke Energy. This well is open from an elevation of 727
feet to 214 feet and it pumps at an average rate of 20,000 gallons per day. A second
public supply well is operated by the Boathouse Restaurant on NC Highway 151, across
the lake from the plant. This well is open from an elevation of 716 feet to 520 feet, and it
was assumed to pump 3,000 gallons per day. A third public supply well is located at
The Old Country Church, on NC Highway 150. This well is screened from an elevation
of 722 feet to 702 feet and was assumed to pump 280 gallons per day on average. This
pumping rate is similar to that of a household and was selected based on the
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assumption that the church is mainly occupied on Sunday mornings but is vacant
during most of the remainder of the week.
There are 80 private wells inside the model boundary, five of which are known to be
abandoned. Where depth data were available, the private wells were open over the
known depths. In most cases, the well depths were unknown, and the wells were
assumed to be open in the upper part of the bedrock in model layer 10. The pumping
rates from the wells were unknown, and the model assumed a pumping rate of 280
gallons per day, which is an average water use for a family of four (Treece et al. 1990;
USGS, 1987, and 1995). Septic return was assumed to be 94 percent of the pumping
rate, based on Treece et al. (1990), Daniels et al. (1997) and Radcliffe et al. (2006). The
septic return was simulated as a specified flux into layer 6 (saprolite) in the model.
4.5 Flow Model Calibration Targets
The steady state flow model calibration targets were water level measurements made in
220 observation wells through the first quarter of 2019. The water level data for wells
with multiple measurements were averaged to account for seasonal variations. Results
from all wells sampled were included in the calibration. The wells included those
screened in each of the hydrostratigraphic units and many sets of nested wells.
4.6 Transport Model Parameters
The transport model uses a sequence of steady-state MODFLOW simulations to provide
the time -dependent groundwater velocity field. The MODFLOW simulation started
January 1965, and it continued through February 2019. The transient flow field is
approximated as a series of flow fields that correspond with conditions at different
times as the Industrial and FGD landfills were constructed. The transient flow field was
modeled as four successive steady state flow fields; one corresponding with the Site
conditions before the Industrial and FGD landfills were constructed, one corresponding
with conditions after the eastern cell of the Industrial landfill was completed, one after
the FGD landfill was completed, and one after the western cell of the Industrial landfill
was completed. These steps all represent minor changes to the groundwater flow field,
and they are simulated by adjusting the recharge rate at the landfills from the
background value of 8 in/yr to 0 in/yr once the landfills were completed. Neither of
these landfills is considered to be a source of COIs at the Site.
The key transport model parameters are the constituent source concentrations in the
ash, and the constituent soil -water distribution coefficient (Ka). Other parameters are
the longitudinal, transverse, and vertical dispersivity, and the effective porosity. The
constituent source concentrations in the ash basin, Phase I and II Dry Ash Landfills, and
the PV Structural Fill were initially estimated from the ash pore water concentrations
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and from concentrations in nearby wells. During the transport model calibration
process, the basin and other source areas were subdivided, and different concentrations
were assigned to different zones at different times. The timing of constituent sources
appearing in the Phase I and II Dry Ash Landfills and the PV Structural Fill locations
correspond to the time when they became active (The Phase I Dry Ash Landfill became
active in 1984, Phase II Dry Ash Landfill became active in 1986, and the PV Structural
Fill became active in 2000). The ash basin source zones become active when the model
starts (1965). In areas where landfills or structural fill was built over the ash basin, the
ash basin areas were activated first (in 1965), followed by the landfill or structural fill at
the appropriate time. Once they are activated, source concentrations of the constituent
are held constant at the specified levels in the ash layers during the historical transport
simulation, but they are allowed to vary in time during the predictive simulations that
follow. Changes in concentration within the source zones during the predictive
simulations are controlled by flow in these regions and the chemical transport
parameters (i.e. Kd values).
The numerical treatment of adsorption in the model requires special consideration
because part of the system is a porous media (ash, saprolite, and transition zone) with a
relatively high porosity, whereas the bedrock is a fractured medium with very low
matrix porosity and permeability. As a result, transport in the fractured bedrock occurs
almost entirely through the fractures. The MODFLOW and MT3DMS flow and
transport models used here simulated the fractured bedrock as an equivalent porous
media. With this approach, an effective hydraulic conductivity is assigned to the
fractured rock zones so that it produces the correct Darcy flux (volume of water per
area of media per time) for a given hydraulic gradient. However, because the water
flows almost entirely through the fractures, this approach requires that a small effective
porosity value (0.05 or less) be used for the transport calculations to compute a realistic
pore velocity as with other sites. The velocity of a COI, Vc, is affected by both the
porosity, 0, and the retardation factor, R, as:
v, =OR
(1a)
where the COI retardation factor is computed internally in the MT3DMS code using a
conventional approach:
R=1+PbK d
0
(1b)
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and V is the volumetric flux (Darcy velocity), pb is the bulk density and Ka is the
distribution coefficient assuming linear equilibrium sorption. The retardation factor for
boron in fractured rock is expected to be in the same range as R for porous media.
However, it is apparent from (1b) that R can become large if 0 is reduced and Ka is held
constant. This is unrealistic, and it is the reason why a small Ka value is assigned to the
bedrock, where the effective porosity is due to the fractures, and is low. This reduction
of Ka is justified on physical grounds because COIs in fractured rock interact with only a
small fraction of the total volume in a grid block, whereas COIs in porous media are
assumed to interact with the entire volume. The Ka for COIs in the bedrock layers of the
model was reduced by scaling it to the bedrock porosity. This causes the retardation
factor in the fractured rock to be similar to R in the saprolite and transition zone.
Ash leaching tests were performed on five samples from the Marshall ash basin using
USEPA (LEAF) Method 1316. The leaching data were analyzed to develop a Ka
(partition coefficient) value for boron in the coal ash. The average of those test values
was 0.77 mL/g. The modeling approach for the predictive simulations of future boron
transport allows the boron concentration in the ash to vary with time in response to
water infiltrating and flowing through the ash, dissolving boron, and flowing out of the
source areas. Using the Ka value that is derived from ash leaching tests ensures that the
model response of the boron in the ash to water flowing through the source areas is
realistic.
The Ka value for the boron outside of the ash basin was treated as a calibration
parameter. Boron is expected to be mobile, and to have a low Ka value. The calibrated
Ka values for the saprolite and transition zone layers were 0.5 mL/g. In the fractured
bedrock, a much lower value was used as described above of 0.02 mL/g. These values
were derived by adjusting the Ka value to better match groundwater boron
concentrations in observation wells.
The Ka values used for TDS in the model were 0.15 mL/g in the ash, 0.1 mL/g in the
saprolite and transition zone, and 0.01 mL/g in the bedrock. The Ka values used for
strontium in the model were 0.15 mL/g in the ash, 0.1 mL/g in the saprolite and
transition zone, and 0.02 mL/g in the bedrock.
The longitudinal dispersivity was assigned a value of 20 feet, the transverse dispersivity
was set to 2 feet, and the vertical dispersivity was set to 0.2 feet. The dispersivities are
model parameters that are used to describe the diffusion -like spreading of plumes that
occurs in addition to transport with the bulk groundwater flow. Dispersivity values are
both model -dependent and scale -dependent. The longitudinal dispersivity is typically
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found to be between 1/200 and 1/10 of the constituent plume travel distance.
Transverse and vertical dispersivities are typically on the order of 1/10 and 1/100 of the
longitudinal value, respectively. The dispersivities used in this study are consistent
with these literature values. The transport model is not very sensitive to the
dispersivities within a reasonable range of values.
The effective porosity was set to a value of 0.3 in the unconsolidated layers, and to 0.01
in all the bedrock layers. The soil dry bulk density was set to 1.6 g/mL.
4.7 Transport Model Boundary Conditions
The transport model boundary conditions are specified as no -flow on the exterior edges
of the model except where general head boundaries exist. With a general head
condition, water can flow into or out of the model, depending on the head in each
gridblock relative to the specified head. If water flows into the model, the concentration
of COIs in the incoming water are set to 0 µg/L. Water that flows out of the model
removes associated COIs based on their concentration. All of the general head water
bodies (lakes, river, and ponds) are treated in this manner. The infiltrating precipitation
is assumed to be clean, and enters from the top of the model. The ponded ash basin
water is handled differently because it is considered a source of boron in the model. In
the ponded ash basin water, the water level is maintained using a constant general head
hydraulic boundary, and the boron concentration is specified in model cells below the
water surface. The water entering the model from the general head boundary does not
contain boron, but as it infiltrates through the ash layers it equilibrates with the
specified boron concentrations in those layers.
The initial condition for the historical transport model assumes a boron concentration of
0 µg/L throughout the Site in 1965. No background concentrations are considered.
4.8 Transport Model Sources and Sinks
The ash basin, Phase I and II Dry Ash Landfills, and the PV Structural Fill are the source
of boron in the model. During the historical transport simulation, these sources are
simulated by holding the boron concentration constant in cells located inside the ash in
these zones, which simulates a continuous replenishing of source material in these
zones. The boron concentrations from the historical transport simulation form the
initial condition for the predictive simulations of future transport at the Site. The
predictive simulations do not hold the boron concentrations constant in the ash source
zones because no additional source material is being added to the ash source zones, and
this mobile constituent can wash out of the ash over time. The boron Kd value used for
the ash was measured in ash leaching tests using ash from the Site to ensure that the
simulated boron leaching rate is realistic.
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COIs in soil and rock at the Site can continue to serve as a source to groundwater. This
potential is fully accounted for in the model by continuously tracking the COI
concentrations in time in the saprolite, transition zone, and rock materials throughout
the model. The historical transport model simulates the migration of boron through the
soil and rock from the ash basin, and these results are used as the starting
concentrations for the predictive simulations. Therefore, even if all the coal ash is
excavated, the transport model predicts ongoing effects on groundwater from the soil
beneath the ash.
The transport model sinks are the general head or drain conditions used to simulate the
lake, ponds, and creeks. As groundwater enters these features, it is removed along with
any dissolved COI mass. Similarly, if water containing COIs were to encounter a
pumping well, the COIs would be removed with the water.
4.9 Transport Model Calibration Targets
The transport model calibration targets are boron concentrations measured in 182
monitoring wells in the first quarter of 2019. All sampled wells are included in the
calibration. New wells and data that have been collected since that time were not
included in the updated model calibration process. Fall 2019 data from newly installed
wells suggest the model predictions are conservative; the model over -predicts the actual
groundwater concentrations in some isolated areas.
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5.0 MODEL CALIBRATION TO PRE -DECANTED CONDITIONS
5.1 Flow Model Calibration
The flow model was calibrated in stages starting with a relatively simple layered model.
All calibration was done by manual adjustments of parameters, simultaneously
matching the recent water levels measured in all observation wells (Table 5-1).
Additional flow model calibration was required to also match the pre -decanted boron
distribution. The primary calibration parameters are the three-dimensional distribution
of hydraulic conductivity. Each model layer has been subdivided into hydraulic
conductivity zones. These model conductivity zones are shown in Figures 5-1 through
5-12, and the calibrated hydraulic conductivity values assigned to each zone in each
layer are listed in Table 5-2.
Starting at the top, in layers 1-4, the layers represent both the coal ash and the ash basin
dam. It was important to calibrate the conductivity of the dam fill material in these
layers separately (Figure 5-1) in order to match the head values in wells located in and
near the dam. The dam fill material has a calibrated conductivity of 0.03 ft/d.
In the pre -decanted steady-state flow model, a high hydraulic conductivity (100 ft/d)
was applied to the ponded ash basin water to represent open water (Figure 5-1). The
hydraulic conductivity of the ash was assumed to be 2.0 ft/d. The pre -decanted
conditions flow model is relatively insensitive to the ash conductivity because the water
levels around the ash basin are largely controlled by the ponded ash basin water and
other surface water bodies. The value of 2.0 ft/d that was used is close to the median of
more than 200 slug tests performed at 14 coal ash basin sites in North Carolina shown in
Figure 4-4, and it falls within the range of values measured at Marshall. The selected
model ash hydraulic conductivity of 2 ft/d is also consistent with numerical and
analytical pumping test analyses (SynTerra 2019a and 2019b). Although the pre -
decanted conditions model is not sensitive to this parameter, the predictive closure -in -
place simulation is more sensitive to the ash conductivity.
The calibrated background hydraulic conductivity for the saprolite (layers 5-8) was 1.0
ft/d, which is equal to the median value for slug tests performed in saprolite at 10 coal
ash basin sites in the Piedmont of North Carolina, and near the median for slug tests
performed at Marshall (Figure 4-5). This material is heterogeneous and zones of both
higher and lower conductivity were required to match the hydraulic heads and boron
transport in and around the ash basin (Figure 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5 and Table 5-2). The
range of saprolite conductivity in the model is 0.02 ft/d to 10.0 ft/d, which falls within
the range of values measured in slug tests in the 10 Piedmont Sites shown in Figure 4-5.
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The calibrated background conductivity for the transition zone (layer 9) was 1.5 ft/d.
This value falls near the average value for slug tests performed in the transition zone at
10 Duke Energy sites located in the Piedmont of North Carolina (Figure 4-6). The
transition zone is heterogeneous, with values ranging from 0.008 ft/d to 8.0 ft/d (Figure
5-6 and Table 5-2). The low conductivity zones are mainly located in areas where there
are topographic ridges or hills. The lower conductivity values are required in order to
match the higher hydraulic heads observed in wells in these locations.
The upper bedrock zone in the model includes layers 10-13, and it is 150 feet thick. It
was necessary to adjust model conductivity values separately in each of these layers in
order to match the observed hydraulic heads and boron concentrations in observation
wells. The background conductivity value used in the model of 0.7 ft/d is close to the
median of values measured from slug tests at 10 Duke Energy sites located in the
Piedmont of North Carolina, and in slug tests performed at Marshall (Figure 4-7).
The upper bedrock conductivity ranges from 0.003 ft/d to 10 ft/d in the model (Figures
5-7 to 5-10 and Table 5-2). The low values were used to better match high hydraulic
heads that are observed in wells located on ridges and other topographically high areas.
Higher conductivity values were needed in places to match the lower observed
hydraulic heads, and in some cases, to match the observed boron transport. A fairly
complicated three-dimensional pattern of conductivity was required beneath the Phase
II Dry Ash Landfill to match the heads in shallow and bedrock wells in this area (Figure
5-7, 5-8, 5-9). The wells AL-41) and AL-4BR screened beneath the landfill have average
heads of about 811 feet, while the deeper AL-4BRL has a head of only 798 feet.
Matching these heads is accomplished by placing a low permeability zone above AL-
4BRL and connecting a highly permeable fracture zone to AL-4BRL (Figure 5-9). This
combination also provides a good match with the boron data in this area.
The mid -depth bedrock includes model layers 14-16 (Figure 5-11 and Table 5-2) and is
150 feet thick. The background value of 0.1 ft/d is somewhat lower than the shallower
bedrock value. It is expected that the degree of fracturing, and hence the average
conductivity should decrease with depth. The conductivity of these layers range from
0.005 to 12.0. The high conductivity value is located around well AL-02BRLL, beneath
the Phase II Dry Ash Landfill. This well is about 350 feet deep, and it is screened at an
elevation of about 570 feet. This deep well intersects a productive fracture zone that
consistently indicates high boron concentrations (>10,000 µg/L). The high conductivity
zone in layers 13-15 was used to represent a highly fractured zone in this location, and it
was needed to reproduce the high observed boron concentrations in this well. A deeper
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well (AL-02BRLLL) was installed at a depth of about 500 feet at this location in 2019.
Boron was not detected at this depth.
The deep bedrock layer extends over the bottom 250 feet (layers 17-21) of the model and
was assigned a uniform value of 0.01 ft/d (Figure 5-12) with the exception of one zone
in part of the ash basin with a hydraulic conductivity of 0.005 ft/d. This was done to
reduce the downward gradient in that area in order to improve the boron calibration in
AB-6BRL. The flow model calibration is relatively insensitive to this value, but the
model conductivity is high enough to allow some water flow in the deep bedrock. The
combination of the low rock porosity (0.01) and the high mobility of boron results in
some deeper predicted migration of boron in parts of the model. Hydraulic and boron
concentration data from the deep bedrock wells were used to refine estimates of the
bedrock hydraulic conductivity distribution.
The final calibrated flow model has a mean head residual of -0.58 feet, a root mean
squared error (RMSE) of 2.86 feet, and a normalized root mean square error (NRMSE)
of 2.51 percent. The range of heads at the site is about 114 feet with a maximum of
871.83 feet and a minimum of 756.85 feet. A comparison of the observed and simulated
water levels is listed in Table 5-1 and the observed and simulated levels are cross -
plotted in Figure 5-13. The best -fit hydraulic parameters from the calibration effort are
listed in Table 5-2.
The computed heads in the transition zone (model layer 9) are shown in Figure 5-14.
The simulated heads in the first fractured bedrock model layer (model layer 10) are
shown in Figure 5-15. These are similar to the shallower heads. The calibration wells
are also shown in this figure (many of the nested wells plot on top of each other). The
green and yellow bars in Figure 5-16 indicate the magnitude of model error at each
well. The green color indicates that the difference is less than 5 feet and the yellow
color indicates a difference of 5 feet to 10 feet. The majority of the wells have a model
error of less than 5 feet.
The groundwater flow divide around the ash basin is shown in Figure 5-17 as the red
line. This divide wraps around the west, north, and east part of the ash basin area.
Inside of this divide, groundwater flows toward the ash basin and Lake Norman (blue
arrows), while outside of the divide, groundwater flows away from the ash basin.
The approximate water balance in the ash basin watershed is summarized in Table 5-3.
The size of the watershed that contributes to groundwater flow toward the ash basin
depends on the locations of the groundwater divides that can change over time (e.g., ash
basin is excavated or capped) and vary with depth. Under pre -decanted conditions, the
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watershed area contributing flow toward the basin is estimated at approximately 1327
acres. Removing the areas that are capped landfills, constructed wetlands, and the
ponded ash basin water; the remaining area is approximately 1161 acres, resulting in
approximately 482 gallons per minute (gpm) of groundwater flow from recharge. Water
leakage from the ponded ash basin water to the groundwater system is calculated to be
80 gpm. Flow removed from the groundwater system by streams and ditches is
approximately 75 gpm and flow removed from the groundwater system by finger lakes
and canals is approximately 270 gpm. To complete the water balance, it is estimated
that approximately 217 gpm discharges to Lake Norman when the ponded ash basin
water elevation is at 789 feet. Subject to uncertainty, the estimate is related to the
subsurface hydraulic conductivity distribution.
5.2 Flow Model Sensitivity Analysis
A parameter sensitivity analysis was performed by systematically increasing the main
parameters by 100% and decreasing the main parameters by 50% of their calibrated
values (Table 5-4). Only the main background hydraulic conductivity values and
recharge rate were varied in this study. The model is very sensitive to the recharge rate,
and is moderately sensitive to the saprolite, and transition zone conductivities. The
model is strongly sensitive to the conductivity of the upper 150 feet of bedrock (the
upper bedrock layers 10-13), and it is moderately sensitive to the mid -depth bedrock
conductivity. The model is slightly sensitive to the ash conductivity and increasing the
ash conductivity reduced the error. The model is not very sensitive to the conductivity
of the deeper bedrock.
5.3 Historical Transport Model Calibration
The transient flow field was modeled as four successive steady state flow fields; one
corresponding to the Site conditions before the Industrial and FGD landfills were
constructed, one corresponding to conditions after the eastern cell of the Industrial
landfill was completed, one after the FGD landfill was completed, and one after the
western cell of the Industrial landfill was completed. These steps all represent small
changes to the groundwater flow field, and they are simulated by adjusting the
recharge rate from the background value of 8 in/yr to 0 in/yr once the landfills were
built. Neither of these landfills are considered to be a source of COIs at the Site because
they are lined landfills with negligible infiltration contributing boron concentrations to
the groundwater.
The boron distribution in and around the ash basin is extremely complex. Dissolved
boron concentrations in some locations at the Site are as high as 50,000 µg/L and 100,000
µg/L. At other nearby locations, the boron concentration can be much less, < 700 ug/L.
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Boron is found as deep as 250 feet below the original ground surface at well AL-
02BRLL. Reproducing this complex pattern of COI distribution required the use of
many different specified COI source concentration zones (Figures 5-18 and Tables 5-
5a,b,c).
The ash basin was subdivided into 33 different zones with specified boron, strontium,
and TDS concentrations (Figure 5-18 and Tables 5-5a,b,c). These sources are activated
at the start of the simulation, in 1965. At some locations the COI concentration was not
specified in all four of the ash layers; this was done to improve the calibration with
transition zone and shallow bedrock wells in those areas. At two locations, the Phase II
Dry Ash Landfill and the PV Structural Fill, ash was later placed on top of part of the
ash basin. Monitoring wells in these locations sometimes indicate greater boron
concentrations than in surrounding wells, and this is reflected in the specified source
concentrations.
The remaining parts of the Dry Ash Landfills Phase I and Phase II and PV Structural Fill
were described using seven specified concentration zones (Figure 5-19 and Tables 5-
6a,b,c). These COI source zones were activated when the respective landfill or
structural fill became active.
The calibrated Kd values for the boron was 0.5 in the saprolite and transition zone
materials, and 0.02 in the bedrock. The effective porosity was set to 0.3 in the
unconsolidated layers and reduced to 0.01 in the bedrock layers.
Table 5-7 compares measured (first quarter, 2019) and simulated pre -decanted
conditions boron concentrations. The simulated maximum boron concentrations in all
non -ash flow layers are shown in Figure 5-20. The model predicts boron transport
above the 02L standard beyond the current compliance boundary from the ash basin
and Phase I Dry Ash Landfill to the south and east near the ash basin dam. This boron
migration appears to occur mainly in the saprolite, transition zone, and shallow
bedrock, but transport in the mid -depth bedrock is also predicted.
Well cluster AB-01 is located near the north eastern toe of the ash basin dam. This set of
nested wells includes four bedrock wells that extend as deep as 500 feet below ground
surface. The calibrated model gives a good match with the observed boron
concentrations in these wells:
• 2902 µg/L in well AB-1S (observed value of 2390 µg/L)
• 1388 µg/L in well AB-11) (observed value of 1180 µg/L)
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• 2325 µg/L in well AB-1BR (observed value of 3430 µg/L)
• 2035 µg/L in well AB-1BRL (observed value of 2730 µg/L)
• 1814 µg/L in well AB-1BRLL (observed value of 2320 µg/L)
• 115 µg/L in well AB-1BRLLL (observed value of 63 µg/L)
The model also predicts deep boron transport beneath the Phase II Dry Ash Landfill,
and it shows significant boron concentrations in some of the deep bedrock wells at this
location:
• 16760 µg/L in well AL-2S (observed value of 12900 µg/L)
• 6995 µg/L in well AL-2D (observed value of 12300 µg/L)
• 4941 µg/L in well AL-2BR (observed value of 4820 µg/L)
• 5293 µg/L in well AL-2BRL (observed value of 2130 µg/L)
• 6771 µg/L in well AL-2BRLL (observed value of 10600 µg/L)
• 28 µg/L in well AL-2BRLLL (observed value of <50 µg/L )
The simulation shows boron concentrations greater than the 02L standard to the east of
the northern portion of the dam in bedrock beneath monitoring wells MW-10S and
MW-10D. Boron concentrations are non -detect in groundwater samples from these
wells and this is reproduced by the model. A deeper bedrock well is not available to
confirm the predicted boron transport in the bedrock at this location.
The results for the strontium and TDS calibrations are shown in Figures 5-21 and 5-22
and Tables 5-7b and 5.7c. The strontium and TDS plumes are not as prevalent boron.
However, TDS is present in concentrations greater than 02L beyond the compliance
boundary, and the strontium and TDS plumes are predicted to be present beyond the
dam and beneath Lake Norman. However, the strike of bedrock fracture orientations
measured along the shoreline at AB-1BRLLL and AB-2BR were strongly preferential
parallel to the shoreline. This suggests the hydraulic conductivity is higher parallel to
the shoreline and lower perpendicular to the shoreline. Therefore, it is possible that the
plume actually does not (and would not) extend as far offshore beneath the lake as the
current simulations indicate.
Overall, the simulated COI concentrations appear to reasonably match the observed
concentrations in most areas, and the model -simulated boundary where the
concentration is greater than the 02L standard is similar to the observed locations. The
normalized root mean square error (NRMSE) of the predicted boron values is 1.77
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percent and it is 3.6 percent for the predicted TDS values. For strontium, the NRMSE is
10.8 percent which is higher than for boron and TDS. Strontium can have higher natural
background values in the Piedmont and it is also a more reactive COI, which made the
calibration more challenging. The simulation results are generally consistent with the
monitoring well data that show no effects on water supply wells from the ash basin,
structural fill, or landfills.
5.4 Transport Model Sensitivity Analysis
A parameter sensitivity analysis was conducted to evaluate the effects of Kd on the
NRMSE. Kd is assumed to be uniform across each grid layer and to vary with depth, as
described in Section 4.6. The sensitivity analysis was performed on the calibrated
transport model by systematically increasing and decreasing boron Kd values by a factor
of 5 from their calibrated values (0.5 mL/g in the saprolite and transition zone, and 0.02
mL/g in the bedrock). The model was then run using the adjusted Kd values, and the
NRMSE was calculated and compared to the NRMSE for the calibrated model.
The calibrated transport model simulates boron concentrations with NRMSE values of
1.77 percent for boron (Table 5-8). Decreasing the boron Kd by multiplying by a factor
of one -fifth increases the NRMSE to 4.55 percent and increasing the boron Kd by 5 times
increases the NRMSE to 7.76 percent (Table 5-8). The simulation results are seen to be
sensitive to the Kd value range tested here. The sensitivity analysis results indicate that
the Kd values used for boron are near optimal values. In terms of the boron plume
behavior, the low Kd simulation over -predicts the extent of boron migration, while the
high Kd simulation under -predicts the extent of boron migration.
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6.0 PREDICTIVE SIMULATIONS OF CLOSURE SCENARIOS
The simulated February 2019 boron distribution was used as the initial condition in
closure simulations of future flow and transport at the Site. There are two main
simulated scenarios: one in which the ash in the ash basin and a final cover system is
installed over the Phase II Dry Ash Landfill and the PV Structural Fill and one in which
a final cover system is installed over the ash basin, Phase II Dry Ash Landfill, and the
PV Structural Fill. The Phase I Dry Ash Landfill is excavated in both closure scenarios.
The decanting (draining of free-standing water) of the ponded ash basin water, which
began in 2019, is expected to be completed by March 2021. Ponded ash basin water
decanting will have an effect on the groundwater flow field, because the ponded water
level will be lowered by about 17 feet, removing free-standing water.
After the ponded ash basin water decanting, the final Site closure activities will start
and will continue for several years. The closure -in -place is expected to take 15 years to
complete, while excavation is expected to take about 32.4 years to complete.
The predictive simulations are run in two steps. The first step is a simulation that starts
in 2021 and uses the groundwater flow field after the ponded ash basin water is
decanted. The starting boron distribution for this simulation is the simulated February
2019 concentration distribution. This simulation step continues for a period of 15 years
(for closure -in -place) or 32.4 years (for closure -by -excavation) ending in either 2036 or
2053. The second step assumes that construction activities have been completed and
uses the closure -in -place or closure -by -excavation design flow field for transport
simulations. These simulations start in 2036 or 2053 and continue for nearly 200 years
after closure.
6.1 Interim Models with Ash Basin Decanted (2021-2036 or 2021-
2053)
This simulation represents an interim period after the pond is decanted, but before
closure action construction is completed. Decanting of the pond is simulated by
removing the specified head zone that represents the pond in the pre -decanted
conditions flow simulation and replacing it with a small specified general head area at
an elevation of 772 feet, which is 17 feet below the pre -decanted ash basin free water
surface. The specified head area is located in the deepest part of the pre -decanted
ponded ash basin water (Figure 6-1). Several small ponds in the southern part of the
ash basin, and the sluice channel were converted from a general head boundary
condition to a drain condition. Recharge at a rate of 8 in/yr is added to the ash basin,
and boron initial conditions come from the historical transport simulation. Boron
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concentrations in the ash are no longer held constant, and the boron can leach from the
ash according to its Ka value (which was derived from ash leaching tests). Boron
present in the underlying soil and rock is mobile and moves in response to the
groundwater flow with adsorption occurring according to the soil or rock Ka value. The
surface drains in the southern part of the ash basin remain in this simulation. Figure 6-
1 shows the simulated steady-state hydraulic heads after the pond is decanted. Figure
6-2 shows the simulated boron distribution in the transition zone in 2036 with the ash
basin decanted prior to closure -in -place and excavation.
The area subject to infiltration from rainfall is increased due to the decanting of the ash
basin with an acreage of 1243. The total groundwater recharge applied to the watershed
is 516 gpm. Groundwater drainage inside the ash basin after decanting is predicted to
be approximately 300 gpm. Outside of the ash basin, groundwater is drained at a rate of
66 gpm. The inferred groundwater discharge flow rate to Lake Norman is
approximately 150 gpm; a reduction of 67 gpm when compared to the estimated
discharge to Lake Norman under pre -decanting conditions. These results are
summarized in Table 6-1.
6.2 Closure -in -place with Monitored Natural Attenuation
The closure -in -place simulations begin with the COI distributions from the decanted
basin simulations described above. The ash basin cover design used in the model is
based on a closure plan design developed by AECOM (2019) (Figure 6-3). After the
ponded ash basin water is decanted, this draft design calls for the ash to be regraded
inside the basin to form a gentle slope from north to south toward the dam. Shallow
swales are built that approximately trace the original surface water drainage patterns in
the basin footprint, with ditches at the center of each swale. The cover system consists
of an impermeable geomembrane, covered with 2 feet of soil and a grass surface. The
surface drainage ditches follow the centers of the final cover swales and converge to a
single channel that discharges into Lake Norman just north of the existing dam. An
underdrain system to collect ash pore water below the cap is proposed. The current
conceptual design for this subsurface drainage system calls for the installation of drains
5 feet below the elevation of the cover system in a network that corresponds to the
cover surface water drainage system. The drain network that was used in the closure -
in -place simulation to simulate this underdrain system is shown in Figure 6-4. Drain
elevations between these nodes were interpolated along the arcs. The drains are
simulated using the MODFLOW DRAIN feature, using a relatively high conductance of
10.0 ft2/d/ft. Groundwater flow into these drains is removed from the model. If the
closure -in -place design is selected, the discharge from the drainage system might have
to be collected, treated and discharged per the NPDES permit for a period of time.
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The closure -in -place design is simulated by removing all of the original ash basin
surface water features and replacing them with this underdrain network. The ash
properties are adjusted to reflect regrading of the ash in the area near the dam (a
conductivity of 2 ft/d), and the recharge rate through the cover is set to 0.00054 in/yr.
This value is based on landfill cover simulations performed using the Hydrologic
Evaluation of Landfill Performance program (HELP) by AECOM. The plans call for
excavation of the Phase I Dry Ash Landfill, and three of the northern ash basin fingers
near the Phase II Dry Ash Landfill (these three fingers are being removed to install the
temporary storm water ponds for storm water being rerouted around the PV Structural
Fill). The Phase II Dry Ash Landfill and the PV Structural Fill are capped in this
simulation. The recharge rate through the cover of these fills is set to 0.00054 in/yr.
The COI initial conditions for this simulation come from the dewatered ponded ash
basin water simulation in the year 2036. The boron concentrations in the ash are
variable in time, and the Ka value in the ash was set to a value measured in ash leaching
tests performed with ash from the basin (0.77 mL/g). The calibrated Kd values for
strontium and TDS are both set to 0.15 mL/g.
The steady-state hydraulic heads in the transition zone are shown in Figure 6-5. The
groundwater flow field changes slightly from pre -decanted conditions, and it continues
to be dominated by strong groundwater divides to the west, north, and east, with flow
toward Lake Norman. The simulation predicts that the size of the watershed would
remain relatively unchanged with an area of approximately 1327 acres. The area subject
to infiltration from rainfall is reduced to an acreage of 809 due to capping of the ash
basin. The total estimated groundwater recharge is 336 gpm. Groundwater drainage
inside the ash basin after decanting is predicted to be approximately 158 gpm. Outside
of the ash basin, groundwater drains at a rate of 43 gpm. The estimated groundwater
discharge flow rate to Lake Norman is 135 gpm; a reduction of 15 gpm when compared
with the estimated discharge to Lake Norman under post -decanting conditions.
The simulated maximum boron concentrations in all non -ash model layers is shown for
14 years post -closure (Figures 6-6a), 64 years post -closure (Figures 6-6b), 114 years
post -closure (Figures 6-6c), and 164 years post -closure (Figures 6-6d) for the closure -in -
place simulation. The closure -in -place simulation suggests that in the absence of
corrective action, boron might be present at concentrations greater than the 02L
standard beyond the current compliance boundary near Lake Norman for several
hundred years. COI concentrations shown in groundwater beneath Lake Norman do
not represent surface water concentrations in Lake Norman. The dissolved boron
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concentration in groundwater that is beyond the current or potential compliance
boundary never exceeds the USEPA tap water standard of 4,000 µg/L.
The strontium and TDS concentration distributions 14 years post -closure are plotted in
Figures 6-7a and6-7b. TDS is predicted to be present beyond the compliance boundary
and at greater concentrations than the USEPA secondary standard of 500 mg/L 14 years
post -closure. Strontium is also predicted to be present beyond the compliance boundary
at concentrations greater than 1,500 µg/L, although no drinking water limits are defined
for strontium. Both TDS and strontium are predicted to be present along the dam, in the
transition zone and bedrock beneath Lake Norman. These simulations show that water
supply wells in the area are not affected by the COIs modeled at any time in the future.
6.3 Closure -in -place with Active Remediation
The closure -in -place scenario with corrective action such that 02L compliance is
achieved 9 years after operation is simulated in two steps. The first step begins once
decanting has been completed and a flow field is calculated for the proposed
remediation design. The resulting flow field is then used for the transport simulation
until 02L compliance is achieved. Once the closure -in -place construction is completed in
approximately 15 years post -decanting, a second simulation continues with a flow field
that reflects both the closure -in -place closure system and the groundwater remediation
closure system.
The corrective action occurs primarily north of the dam and along the dam at the Site
(Figure 6-8). The remedial system considered consists of sixty-six (66) extraction wells
pumping at a total extraction rate of 652 gpm (Table 6-2). Twenty-four (24) infiltration
wells are considered to introduce a total of 285 gpm of clean water to the system. The
sixty-six extraction wells have water levels maintained at depths about 125 to 150 ft
below the ground surface in the wells. This is necessary to reverse the groundwater
gradient and capture the groundwater with concentrations greater than 02L beneath
Lake Norman. The well depths range from 126 feet to 257 feet below ground surface.
All of the extraction wells pump from the bedrock layers in the model. Twenty-five of
the extraction wells pump from the bedrock alone while the remaining forty-one (41)
wells also extract from the saprolite and the transition zone. Although there is no boron
detected along the southern part of the dam, other COIs including strontium and TDS
are present as well. Eight extraction wells are included along the southern portion of the
dam to capture the additional COIs. These eight extraction wells are screened in the
upper bedrock in the model and generate enough drawdown to capture COIs in the
shallower flow zone. All of the infiltration wells are screened only in the saprolite. The
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heads in the infiltration wells are maintained at two feet below ground surface and
primarily flush COIs out of the saprolite east of the compliance boundary.
The extraction wells are simulated using a vertical series of MODFLOW DRAIN points.
The DRAIN bottom elevations are set to the center of the gridblock containing the
drain. This simulates a condition where the water is being pumped out of the well
casing to maintain the specified water level near the bottom of the well. The DRAIN
conductance values are estimated by considering radial flow to a well, which follows
the Anderson and Woessner (1992) approach. For a horizontal hydraulic conductivity
of K, a well radius of rW, and horizontal and vertical grid spacing of Ax and Az, the
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Infiltration wells are treated similarly, using the General Head Boundary (GHB)
condition in MODFLOW, with a conductance calculated the same way, but with a
reduction of 75 percent to account for well clogging. The infiltration heads have been
set to 2 feet below the ground surface. The computed heads for the design during the
decanted period are shown in Figure 6-8.
The remediation system achieves 02L compliance within 9 years of operation (Figures
6-9a). Figure 6-9b through 6-9e show the maximum boron distribution in all non -ash
layers at 50-year intervals starting 29 years after operation. The remediation system
achieves 02L compliance for boron within nine years of operation (Figure 6-9a), and
compliance is maintained through nearly 179 years after the beginning of operations.
The additional COIs considered, TDS, and strontium are shown in Figures 6-10a and
Figure 6-10b, and are predicted to achieve compliance after 9 years of operation also.
6.4 Closure -by -Excavation with Monitored Natural Attenuation
This simulation begins in 32.4 years after ash basin decanting using the COI
distributions from the decanted pond simulation described in Section 6.2. Excavation is
simulated by setting the COI concentrations in the ash layers in the ash basin and Phase
I Dry Ash Landfill to zero. The concentrations of boron in the remaining affected soil
underneath the ash basin are set to the values from the decanted pond simulation. The
ash layers are given a very high hydraulic conductivity (they are now excavated), and
the previous ash basin surface water features are removed. Recharge occurs in the ash
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basin footprint at the background level of 8 in/yr. The Phase II Dry Ash Landfill and the
PV Structural Fill are capped in this simulation, and the recharge is set to 0.00054 inches
per year.
Ash is currently present in the ash basin below the elevation of Lake Norman. After the
ash is excavated from the basin, a storm water pond will be present in the excavated
area in the southern part of the ash basin. An engineering drawing of the proposed
design is shown in Figure 6-11 and this excavated storm water pond is shown in blue in
Figure 6-12. A small stream network is added to the ash basin, following the original
drainages along the top of the saprolite surface, and draining toward the excavated
storm water pond (Figure 6-12). This drain network (green) simulates the springs and
streams that will form in the basin. The storm water pond is treated as a general head
boundary with a high conductance and a head set to 765 feet, which is a few feet higher
than the elevation of Lake Norman.
The steady-state hydraulic heads in the transition zone are shown in Figure 6-13. The
groundwater now flows toward the excavated storm water pond, where it discharges.
Dissolved COIs that discharge into the storm water pond from groundwater are likely
to be diluted in the pond by surface water runoff. If this excavation scenario is selected,
the discharge from the springs and streams might have to be collected, treated, and
discharged per the NPDES permit for a period of time.
The size of the watershed increases to approximately 1394 acres after excavation. The
area of the watershed subject to recharge from precipitation is reduced to 1101 acres
after subtracting the areas of constructed wetlands and landfills. The recharge to the
watershed is now 420 gpm, with 112 gpm of recharge to the basin and 308 gpm of
recharge outside of the basin. Groundwater discharge inside the excavated basin to the
excavated storm water pond and streams is 284 gpm. Drainage outside of the basin to
streams and ditches is estimated to be 20 gpm. The estimated groundwater discharge to
Lake Norman is reduced to 116 gpm, which is 19 gpm less than the estimated closure -
in -place system discharge to Lake Norman.
The simulated maximum boron concentrations in any non -ash layer are shown for 3
years pre -closure (Figure 6-14a), 47 years post -closure (Figure 6-14b), 97 years post -
closure (Figure 6-14c), and 147 years post -closure (Figure 6-14d) for the excavation case.
The figures show the proposed new landfill to accommodate the excavated ash outlined
in black. This simulation suggests that in the absence of any further corrective action,
boron might continue to be greater than the 02L standard in groundwater beyond the
current compliance boundary near Lake Norman for several hundred years. Due to the
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low hydraulic gradients under the lake, simulated boron concentrations are persistent
under Lake Norman in the transition zone and bedrock throughout the future
projections. COI concentrations shown in groundwater beneath Lake Norman do not
represent surface water concentrations in Lake Norman. The boron concentration in
groundwater that is beyond the current or potential compliance boundary never
exceeds the USEPA tap water standard of 4,000 µg/L.
The strontium and TDS distributions 3 years before closure of the ash basin are shown
in Figures 6-15a and 6-15b. TDS is predicted to be present beyond the compliance
boundary and at concentrations greater than the USEPA secondary standard of 500
mg/L in 2050. Strontium is predicted to be present beyond the compliance boundary at
concentrations greater than 1500 µg/L, although no drinking water standards are
defined for strontium. Both TDS and strontium are predicted to be present along the
dam, in the transition zone and bedrock beneath Lake Norman. These simulations show
that water supply wells in the area are not affected by the COIs modeled at any time in
the future.
The simulated transport in the closure -in -place scenario differs from the closure -by -
excavation case because groundwater containing boron and other COIs is not
intercepted by the excavated storm water pond. Over time, plumes of dissolved boron
that originate upgradient in the ash basin, Phase II Dry Ash Landfill, and to a lesser
extent, the PV Structural Fill are predicted to migrate to the southeast toward Lake
Norman. As in the excavation simulation, the simulated boron concentrations are
persistent under Lake Norman in the transition zone and bedrock throughout the future
projections due to the low hydraulic gradients under the lake.
6.5 Closure -by -Excavation with Active Remediation
The active remediation strategy described in Section 6.3 is applied to the closure -by -
excavation scenario. During the period prior to the completion of ash basin closure for
the closure -by -excavation scenario the simulation uses a flow field that representative
of the decanted ponded ash basin water with the groundwater remediation system.
Post -closure, the simulation continues with a flow field that includes the excavated ash
basin along with the groundwater remediation system.
Similar to the closure -in -place scenario, the corrective action occurs primarily north of
the dam and along the dam at the Site. Sixty-six (66) extraction wells pump at a total
extraction rate of 652 gpm. Twenty-four (24) infiltration wells are considered and
introduce a total of 285 gpm of clean water to the system. Again, although there is no
boron detected along the southern part of the dam, other COIs including strontium and
TDS are present and the eight southernmost extraction wells along the dam are
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included to capture the groundwater with dissolved COIs beneath Lake Norman. These
additional wells also prevent additional groundwater containing COIs from migrating
to Lake Norman. The heads in the infiltration wells are maintained at two feet below
ground surface for this scenario.
The computed heads following completion of excavation are shown in Figure 6-16 and
the well information in Table 6-2 summarizes the design for this scenario as well. The
boron distribution in Figures 6-17a through 6-17e show the boron plume at various
times for all non -ash layers. The boron plume reaches compliance 9 years after the
beginning of the operation of the remedial design and compliance is maintained
through the year 2200. The evolution of the plumes are similar to what is displayed in
Figures 6-9a through 6-9e for the closure -in -place scenario. The effect the remediation
design considered has on TDS and strontium is also significant and Figures 6-18a
through 6-18b show that compliance is achieved within 9 years of operation for those
COIs also.
6.6 Conclusions Drawn from the Predictive Simulations
The following conclusions are based on the results of the groundwater flow and
transport simulations:
• Water supply wells and domestic wells in the area are not affected by boron
currently or at any time in the future for any of the scenarios.
• Predicted future boron concentrations at and beyond the current compliance
boundary vary for the closure -in -place and closure -by -excavation simulations. In
both cases a lesser concentration (but greater than 02L) plume of boron is
predicted to continue to migrate south and east toward Lake Norman.
• In the absence of remedial measures associated with corrective action, boron is
predicted to be greater than the 2L standard at the current compliance boundary
near Lake Norman for hundreds of years.
• A groundwater remediation system consisting of 66 extraction wells and 24
infiltration wells is simulated and is able to achieve 02L compliance within 9 year
of operation for both the closure -in -place and the closure -by -excavation designs.
• Simulations indicate that strontium and TDS distributions respond in a way that
is similar to boron, and these constituents are effectively controlled by the
simulated remediation approach.
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• New field data are not likely to change the conclusion that excavation and the
closure -in -place closure designs result in similar transport of boron, strontium,
and TDS at the current compliance boundary.
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DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 4-1
NUMERICAL MODEL DOMAIN
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
Feet l
DUKE
ENERGY
CARG
*p
synTerra
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI
DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: W. PRATER
DATE: 12/12/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER
DATE: 12/12/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER
DATE: 12/12/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
www.synterracorp.com
FIGURE 4-2
FENCE DIAGRAM OF THE 3D HYDROSTRATIGRAPHIC MODEL USED TO
CONSTRUCT THE MODEL GRID
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
DUKE
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
FIGURE 4-3
,&
`W' ENERGY
CARD
REVISED BY: W. PRATER DATE: 12/12/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/12/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WICKER DATE: 12/12/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WICKER
COMPUTATIONAL GRID USED IN THE MODEL WITH 2X VERTICAL
EXAGGERATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
*p
synTerra
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
www.synterracorp.com
1
I[.>F:j
M
0.4
0.2
0 4-
0.001
0.01 0.1
K ft/d
1
10
100
• All Sites
■ Marshall slug test
Marshall pumping test analytical solution
0 Marshall pumping test numerical solution
• Model Number
Analytical and numerical solutions for a coal
ash pumping test at Marshall are included and
show agreement with the slug test values.
DUKE
ENERGY
CARD
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: W. PRATER DATE: 12/12/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/12/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WICKER DATE: 12/12/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WICKER
1
FIGURE 4-4
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASURED IN SLUG TESTS PERFORMED IN COAL
ASH AT 14 SITES IN NORTH CAROLINA
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING REPORT
1MARSHALL STEAM STATION
1
5)/rlTerf d
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
www.synterracorp.com
1
111
�
0.6
O
a
O
0.4
E
3
U
M
0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100
K ft/d
• All Piedmont Sites
♦ Marshall
♦ Model Number
DUKE
ENERGY
CARO
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: W. PRATER DATE: 12/12/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/12/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WICKER DATE: 12/12/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WICKER
FIGURE 4-5
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASURED IN SLUG TESTS PERFORMED IN
SAPROLITE AT 10 PIEDMONT SITES IN NORTH CAROLINA
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
1
S)/rlTerf d
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
www.synterracorp.com
1
1:
M 0.6
O
a
a�
M
75 0.4
E
3
V
101M
M
0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100
K ft/d
• All Piedmont Sites
♦ Marshall
♦ Model Number
DUKE
ENERGY
CARD
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: W. PRATER DATE: 12/12/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/12/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WICKER DATE: 12/12/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WICKER
FIGURE 4-6
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASURED IN SLUG TESTS PERFORMED IN THE
TRANSITION ZONE AT 10 PIEDMONT SITES IN NORTH CAROLINA
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
1
synTerra
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
www.synterracorp.com
0.6
O
a
a�
0.4
E
3
U
0.2
0
0.0001
.If� DUKE
%- ' ENERGY
t,
synTerra
60 •
• All Piedmont Sites
♦ Marshall
♦ Model Number
0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100
K ft/d Each model value corresponds to main background
values in the model layer intervals used for calibration.
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019 FIGURE 4-7
REVISED BY: W. PRATER DATE: 12/12/2019 HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASURED IN SLUG TESTS PERFORMED IN THE
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/12/2019 BEDROCK AT 10 PIEDMONT SITES IN NORTH CAROLINA
APPROVED BY: B. WICKER DATE: 12/12/2019 PROJECT MANAGER: B. WICKER UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
www.synterracorp.com
INDUSTRIAL
LANDFILL #1
INDUSTRIAL AREA
LEGEND
Q RECHARGE ZONES
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
DUKE
1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/13/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/13/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/13/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 4-8
DISTRIBUTION OF MODEL RECHARGE ZONES
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
C.
ALE
DUKE 1,100 G0 APHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
LEGEND
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/17/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/17/2019
DRAINS
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/17/2019
ROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
CONSTANT HEAD ZONES
WnTerm p
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Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
FIGURE 4-9
NOTES:
MODEL SURFACE WATER FEATURES
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
OUTSIDE OF ASH BASIN AREA
STREAMS ARE INCLUDED IN THE MODEL AS DRAINS. CONSTANT HEAD ZONES ARE PRESENT IN
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
THE UPPERMOST ACTIVE MODEL LAYER.
MODELING REPORT
AERIALOBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
PHOTOGRAPHY0118
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
ON F
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
P±
LEGEND
k 4 'pal,
,J
—1 DRAINS
GENERAL HEAD BOUNDARIES
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
GENERAL HEAD BOUNDARIES HAVE A SPECIFIED ELEVATION AND A LARGE CONDUCTANCE.
DRAINS ARE SET TO THE APPROXIMATE GROUND OR WATER SURFACE ELEVATION.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
Grg
E3
40
ALE
DUKE 1,100 G0 APHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/14/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/14/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/14/2019
s)mTena P=2��B.WIUKER
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FIGURE 4-10
MODEL SURFACE WATER FEATURES
IN ASH BASIN AREA
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
I �
fib',, „A6 . . �••
LEGEND
iP WATER SUPPLY WELL
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE PROVIDED BY DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
DUKE
1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11111/21119
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 4-11
WATER SUPPLY WELLS IN MODEL AREA
IN ASH BASIN AREA
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
1
W
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY (FEET/DAY)
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
#5, 100.0
#2, 2.0
#1, 0.03
DUKE 1,100 G0 APHIC SCALE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-1
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN ASH LAYER 2
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
#23, 0.3
#32, 3.0
#4, 1.0
#3, 1.0
#26, 0.01
#21, 0.05 " /`
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
/ #11, 1.0
R •' 7
AE
/., DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/13/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/13/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/13/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-2
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN SAPROLITE LAYER 5
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
28, 3.0 #16, 0.2
#11, 0.05
#24, 10.0 #25, 0.1 ,V
##5, 3.0
7, 5.0
#31, 0.01 #26, 0.1
#22, 0.02 #4, 0.5
#13, 0.1
#30, 0.3
#21, 0.05
#19, 0.03
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
#2, 0.1
#9, 1.0
#8, 2.0
#12, 0.5
#18, 0.05
R '' 7
AE
/., DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/13/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/13/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/13/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-3
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN SAPROLITE LAYER 6
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
oi28,3.0l
#16, 0.2#11,0.05
#17, 0.1
#24, 8.0
�� ` #7, 5.0 #5, 3.0
#6, 1.0
8.0 #14, 0.1 � L
#31, 0.01
#30, 0.3
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
#26, 0.1
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
ALE
DUKE 1,100 G0 APHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/13/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/13/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/13/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-4
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN SAPROLITE LAYER 7
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
#34, 0.02
5, 3.0 \
#24, 0.2
#17, 0.05
#20, 15.0
#16, 0.1
#10, 5.0 #9, 1.0
#31, 10.0 #32, 0.05
#13, 1.0 #12, 0.2
#29, 0.02 #22, 8.0 #7, 0.2
y #21, 0.2 #11, 1.0 #2, 0.1
#33, 0.1
#19, 0.2
#38, 0.01
#25, A A,
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
ALE
DUKE 1,100 G0 APHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/13/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/13/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/13/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-5
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN SAPROLITE LAYER 8
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
#28, 0.05
#11, 0.05
#13, 0.1
#10, 5.0 #5, 0.1
#9, 4.0
#25, 8 1 #8, 0.5
#7, 0.5
#32, 0.02 #4, 0.1
#3, 0.0!
#2, 0.05
#24, 0.02
#31, 0.02 #26, 0.5
#20, 0.1
#15, 1.5
#21, 0.008
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
/., DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/13/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/13/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/13/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-6
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN TRANSITION ZONE LAYER 9
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
#29, 0.005
#17, 8.0 #19, 0.03
#32, 0.01 #15, 3.0 #12, 0.01
#28, 2.0
#27, 4.0 #10, 0.1
#8, 4.0
#26, 0.4 #18, 10.0
#5, 0.1
#31, 0.05 #25, 0.05 #6, 0.4
#9, 0.2
#4, 0.02
#7, 0.02
#11, 0.05
#13, 0.2
#24, 0.03
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
/., DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/14/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/14/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/14/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-7
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN UPPER FRACTURED BEDROCK LAYER 10
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
I
I I A
#25, 0.01
#24, 0.01
#11, 0.01
0.003
49, 0.1
#15, 0.1 J
#8, 0.0?
#12, 0.3
20, 0.01
#21, 0.005 #18, 0.05
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
/., DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/14/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/14/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/14/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-8
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN UPPER FRACTURED BEDROCK LAYER 11
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
#21, 0.01
#12, 0.1
#13, 10.0 #14, 0.005
#10, 0.1
#20, 2.0 #8, 0.01
1 #5 0 005
#17, 0.01
#15, 0.05
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
#6, 0.02
#3, 1.0
#2, 0.1
#4, 0.05
#7, 0.1
/., DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/21119
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/14/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/14/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/14/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-9
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN UPPER FRACTURED BEDROCK LAYER 12
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
#19, 0.01
#12, 0.005
#10, 7.0
#8, 0.01
E#15, 0.01
#11, 0.2
#16, 0.01
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
#5, 0.005
#3, 0.1
#4, 0.05
#13, 0.05
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
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AE
/., DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/14/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/14/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/14/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-10
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN UPPER FRACTURED BEDROCK LAYER 13
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
#5, 0.005
L
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
r=- FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
#2, 0.02
ALE
DUKE 1,100 G0 APHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/14/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/14/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/14/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-11
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN MID -DEPTH BEDROCK LAYERS 14-16
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
#1, 0.005
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ZONES SHOWN WERE USED TO DEFINE HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND
HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THE MODEL. HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY VALUES
AND RATIOS OF HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANISOTROPY FOR NUMBERED POLYGONS ARE
LISTED IN TABLE 5-2.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
ALE
DUKE 1,100 G0 APHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/14/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/14/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/14/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-12
MODEL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ZONES
IN DEEP BEDROCK LAYERS 17-21
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
840
N
820
2
co 800
E
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Computed vs. Observed Values
Head
760 780 800 820 840 860
Observed Heads (ft)
Plotted line indicates a ratio of 1:1.
.�� DUKE
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
FIGURE 5-13
ENERGY
BY: W. PRATER DATE: 12/12/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/12/2019
CHECKED
APPROVED BY: B. WICKER DATE: 12/12/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WICKER
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND COMPUTED HEADS FROM THE
CALIBRATED STEADY STATE FLOW MODEL
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
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HYDRAULIC HEAD (FEET)
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- - - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
CONTOUR INTERVAL IS 10 FEET. HEADS ARE SHOWN PRIOR TO DECANTING.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83 AND NAVD88).
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/., GRAPHIC SCALE
DUKE 1,100 O
00 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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SIMULATED HYDRAULIC HEADS IN
TRANSITION ZONE LAYER 9
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
0
LEGEND
HYDRAULIC HEAD (FEET)
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
CONTOUR INTERVAL IS 10 FEET. HEADS ARE SHOWN PRIOR TO DECANTING.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83 AND NAVD88).
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wM
/., GRAPHIC SCALE
DUKE 1,100 O
00 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 5-15
SIMULATED HYDRAULIC HEADS IN
UPPER FRACTURED BEDROCK LAYER 10
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
87p O 10
00
a�
a60
❑ 160
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0
0
I I t-
0
0
• •
0
soo
LEGEND
ERROR BAR RESIDUALS <5 ft
AT EACH MONITORING WELL 5-10 ft
MONITORING WELLS
HYDRAULIC HEAD (FEET)
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
CONTOUR INTERVAL IS 10 FEET. HEADS ARE SHOWN PRIOR TO DECANTING FOR MODEL LAYER
10.
RESIDUALS ARE SHOWN AT EACH OBSERVATION POINTAND ARE EQUAL TO PREDICTED HEAD -
OBSERVED HEAD. THE SIZE OF THE COLOR BAR FOR THE RESIDUAL INDICATES THE VALUE OF
THE RESIDUAL. THE ERROR BAR SYMBOL INDICATES THE SIZE FOR A RESIDUAL OF 5 FEET.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83 AND NAVD88).
DUKE
1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-16
SIMULATED HYDRAULIC HEADS PRIOR TO DECANTING IN
UPPER FRACTURED BEDROCK FLOW ZONE
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
'%
o
o \ I ! \ 79O pp p
f
LEGEND
.' GROUNDWATER FLOW DIRECTION
��- GROUNDWATER DIVIDE
HYDRAULIC HEAD (FEET)
-- ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- - - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE. ARROWS INDICATE INFERRED DIRECTION ONLY, NOT
MAGNITUDE.
CONTOUR INTERVAL IS 10 FEET. HEADS ARE SHOWN PRIOR TO DECANTING FOR MODEL
LAYER 10.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83 AND NAVD88).
/., DUKE
' ENERGY
GRAPHIC SCALE
1,100 0 1,100
2,200
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE:
11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE:
12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE:
12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE:
12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 5-17
GROUNDWATER DIVIDE AND FLOW DIRECTIONS
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
i
#25
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�11
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LEGEND
DUKE
AE
1,100 GORAPHICS 1,100 2,200
COI SOURCE ZONES
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
REVISED Br. R.KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
' ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
�/�'� e
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
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FIGURE 5-18
COI ASH BASIN SOURCE ZONES
BOUNDARIES ARE ATE.
FOR HISTORICAL TRANSPORT MODEL
NU TO
NUMBER LABELS CORRESPOND TO CONCENTRATION DATA IN TABLE 5-5 a-c.
CORRESPOND
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4,2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
MODELING REPORT
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
�-_
s ��►i'a; . 7
- 5
LEGEND
Q COI SOURCE ZONES
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
NUMBER LABELS CORRESPOND TO CONCENTRATION DATA IN TABLE 5-6 a-c.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
I r" •�
GRAPHIC SCALE
DUKE 1,100 O
00 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11111/21119
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 5-19
COI LANDFILL SOURCE ZONES
FOR HISTORICAL TRANSPORT MODEL
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
i�
LEGEND
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11'11/21119
REVISED BY: B.T DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 5-20
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS PRIOR TO DECANTING
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
I
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LEGEND
DUKE
AE
1,100 GORAPHICS 1,100 2,200
TDS > 500 mg/L
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
REVISED BY. R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
' ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
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FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
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FIGURE 5-21
SIMULATED MAXIMUM TDS CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NON -
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ASH LAYERS PRIOR TO DECANTING
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8,2018.
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
MODELING REPORT
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
t
LEGEND
DUKE
AE
1,100 GORAPHICS 1,100 2,200
STRONTIUM > 1,500 Ng/L
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
REVISED BY. R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
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ROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
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FIGURE 5-22
SIMULATED MAXIMUM STRONTIUM CONCENTRATIONS IN
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
ALL NON -ASH LAYERS PRIOR TO DECANTING
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8,2018.
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
MODELING REPORT
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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80
LEGEND
Q DRAINS
GENERAL HEAD BOUNDARIES
HYDRAULIC HEAD (FEET)
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- - - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
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GRAPHIC SCALE
1,100 O 00 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
NOTES: FIGURE 6-1
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE. SIMULATED HYDRAULIC HEADS IN TRANSITION ZONE AFTER
CONTOUR INTERVAL IS 10 FEET. HYDRAULIC HEADS ARE SHOWN FOR MODEL LAYER 9. DECANTING
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4,2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
ON FEBRUARY 8, 20DRAWING HAS BEEN SET 18.
MODELING REPORT
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPSI3 00 ( AD 3TH A CAND NAVD8TION OF 8RTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS AFTER DECANTING
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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CARD CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/12/2019 UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING REPORT
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/12/2019 MARSHALL STEAM STATION
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LANDFILL BOUNDARY DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
- - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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NOTES: FIGURE 6-4
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE. DRAINS USED IN THE CLOSURE -IN -PLACE DESIGN
PROPOSED ASH BASIN UNDERDRAINS HAVE ELEVATIONS SET TO FEET BELOW THE GROUND UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
SURFACE. MODELING REPORT
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018. MARSHALL STEAM STATION
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
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HYDRAULIC HEAD (FEET)
PROPOSED ASH BASIN UNDERDRAINS
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- - - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
CONTOUR INTERVAL IS 10 FEET. HYDRAULIC HEADS ARE SHOWN FOR LAYER 9.
PROPOSED ASH BASIN UNDERDRAINS (GREEN LINES) HAVE ELEVATIONS SET TO 5 FEET
BELOW THE GROUND SURFACE.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83 AND NAVD88).
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1,100 2,200
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DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/17/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/17/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/17/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-5
SIMULATED HYDRAULIC HEADS FOR THE CLOSURE -IN -
PLACE SCENARIO
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
ENERGY
N FEET,
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
REVISED BY. B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
— - — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
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6-6a
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NOW
NOTES:
ASH LAYERS FOR CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
14 YEARS POST —CLOSURE
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
REPORT
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD86).
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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LEGEND DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L ENERGY N FEET,
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL BOUNDARY CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NON -
NOTES: ASH LAYERS FOR CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE. 64 YEARS POST -CLOSURE
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4,2019. AERIALWAS COLLECTED UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018. REPORT
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE MARSHALL STEAM STATION
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
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DUKE 1,100 O
00 2,200
ENERGY N FEET,
CAROLINAS
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 6-6c
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
114 YEARS POST -CLOSURE
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
f
LEGEND
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
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1,100 2,200
ENERGY
CAROLINAS (IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11111/21119
REVISED BY: B.T DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 6-6d
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
164 YEARS POST -CLOSURE
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
STRONTIUM > 1,500 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
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ENERGY
GRAPHIC SCALE
1,100 O 00 2,200
CAROLINAS
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DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
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FIGURE 6-7a
SIMULATED MAXIMUM STRONTIUM CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
14 YEARS POST -CLOSURE
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
TDS > 500 mg/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
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4 ENERGY®
AE
1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
CAROLINAS
N FEET
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
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FIGURE 6-7b
SIMULATED MAXIMUM TDS CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NON -
ASH LAYERS FOR CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
14 YEARS POST -CLOSURE
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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850
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4/1
LEGEND
EXTRACTION WELL
CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
HYDRAULIC HEAD (FEET)
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
CONTOUR INTERVAL IS 10 FEET. HEADS ARE SHOWN IN MODEL LAYER 9 WITH REMEDIATION
SYSTEM FOR THE CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83 AND NAVD88).
N I iU
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
CAROLINAS (IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11111/21119
REVISED BY: B.T DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
synTerra PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
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FIGURE 6-8
SIMULATED HYDRAULIC HEADS IN TRANSITION ZONE WITH
ACTIVE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY.
CAROLINAS (IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
synTerra PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
www.svnterracorn.com
FIGURE 6-9a
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
AFTER 9 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
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cf' DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
CAROLINAS (IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY:B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E..WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 6-9b
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
AFTER 29 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- - - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
/., DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.T DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-9c
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
AFTER 79 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
('AL
DUKE
1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
CAROLINAS
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11111/21119
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-9d
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
AFTER 129 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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LEGEND
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
AE
cf' DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
CAROLINAS (IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY:B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E..WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 6-9e
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
AFTER 179 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
STRONTIUM > 1,500 Ng/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
STRONTIUM CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIRS 3200 (NAD83).
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DUKE 1,100 GRAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
I ENERGY-
CAROLINAS (IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/21119
REVISED BY: B.T DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
synTerra PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
www.svnterracorD.COM
FIGURE 6-10a
SIMULATED MAXIMUM STRONTIUM CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -IN -PLACE SCENARIO
AFTER 9 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
TDS > 500 mg/L
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- - - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
TDS CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
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I ENERGY
CAROLINAS
147
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1,100 0 1,100 2,200
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-10b
SIMULATED MAXIMUM TDS CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -IN -PLACE
SCENARIO AFTER 9 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER
REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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FIGURE 6-11
CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION DESIGN
USED IN SIMULATIONS (FROM AECOM, 2019)
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
r
LEGEND
DRAIN NETWORK
EXCAVATED STORMWATER AREA
- - - - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- - - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
STREAMS AND SPRINGS THAT FORM ARE INCLUDED AS A DRAIN NETWORK.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-12
DRAIN NETWORK USED IN THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
SIMULATIONS
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
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LEGEND
DRAIN NETWORK
EXCAVATED STORMWATER AREA
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
HYDRAULIC HEAD (FEET)
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
CONTOUR INTERVAL IS 10 FEET. HYDRAULIC HEADS ARE SHOWN FOR MODEL LAYER 9.
STREAMS AND SPRINGS THAT FORM ARE INCLUDED AS A DRAIN NETWORK.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83 AND NAVD88).
6p
O
DUKE
1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-13
SIMULATED HYDRAULIC HEADS IN THE TRANSITION ZONE
AFTER CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 6-14a
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NON -
ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION SCENARIO
3 YEARS PRIOR TO CLOSURE
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING
REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
I
mar3 I ram: u Am
0,
LEGEND
DUKE
1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
— - — -PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
— — — — — ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
— - — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
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LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FIGURE
6-14b
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NON -
ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION SCENARIO
NOTES:
47 YEARS POST -CLOSURE
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
REPORT
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH 3PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM F PS3200 (NAD8
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
l
!T�
+ a
e
LEGEND
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM RIPS 3200 (NAD83).
DUKE
1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11,11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-14c
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NON -
ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION SCENARIO
97 YEARS POST -CLOSURE
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING
REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
r
i
I -
f 'ma`s •
f �
I
ow
LEGEND DUKE 1,100 GRAPHIC SCALE
O00 2,200
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L ENERGY
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L (IN FEET)
- -PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DAE:11,11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL BOUNDARY APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY www.s nterracor .com
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY FIGURE 6-14d
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NON -
ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION SCENARIO
NOTES: 147 YEARS POST -CLOSURE
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE. UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED REPORT
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM F PS3200 (NAD8TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
DUKE
AE
1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
STRONTIUM > 1,500 Ng/L
w FEET)
— - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DAE:11/11/2019
BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
DATE: 12/18/2019
REVISEASH
CHECKDBY:B..WEBT
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
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LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FIGURE
6-15a
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
SIMULATED MAXIMUM STRONTIUM CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
NOTES:
SCENARIO 3 YEARS PRIOR TO CLOSURE
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
REPORT
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM F PS3200 (NAD8
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
A
10
v
A
i
1 T
w
�1
Y
-km
LEGEND
GRAPHIC SCALE
�V'
1,100 0 1,10o z,zoo
TDS > 500 mg/L
N RGY
CAROLINAS
(IN FEET)
— - — - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
CHECKED BY. E.WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
— - — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
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LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
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FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
FIGURE
6-15b
SIMULATED MAXIMUM TDS CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NON -
NOTES:
ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
SCENARIO 3 YEARS PRIOR TO CLOSURE
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
AERIALPHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FG2018.
MODELING REPORT
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
�o� n
LEGEND
CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
HYDRAULIC HEAD (FEET)
— - — - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
CONTOUR INTERVAL IS 10 FEET. HEADS ARE SHOWN IN MODEL LAYER 9 WITH REMEDIATION
SYSTEM FOR CLOSURE BY EXCAVATION SCENARIO DURING INTERIM PERIOD.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83 AND NAVD88).
4 1
':f •� *A fir•.. .
r
/., DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 6-16
SIMULATED HYDRAULIC HEADS IN TRANSITION ZONE WITH
ACTIVE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION SCENARIO
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
!- .VMW
LEGEND
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
e
r..
M
('AL
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY N FEET)
CAROLINAS
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11111/21119
REVISED BY: R. KIEKHAEFER DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 6-17a
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
SCENARIO AFTER 9 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER
REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIRS 3200 (NAD83).
AE
f
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
ENERGY
IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-17b
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
SCENARIO AFTER 29 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER
REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIRS 3200 (NAD83).
J
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-17c
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
SCENARIO AFTER 79 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER
REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 6-17d
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
SCENARIO AFTER 129 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER
REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
BORON 700 - 4,000 Ng/L
BORON > 4,000 Ng/L
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
BORON CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIRS 3200 (NAD83).
!- -
f
DUKE
1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-17e
SIMULATED MAXIMUM BORON CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
SCENARIO AFTER 179 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER
REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
LEGEND
INJECTION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
STRONTIUM > 1,500 Ng/L
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- — - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
STRONTIUM CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
mm
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S AE
1,100 2,200
%,' ENERGY
(IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B.ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E.. WEB WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
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FIGURE 6-18a
SIMULATED MAXIMUM STRONTIUM CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL
NON -ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION
SCENARIO AFTER 9 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER
REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
I
LEGEND
♦ CLEAN WATER INFILTRATION WELL
EXTRACTION WELL
TDS > 500 mg/L
- - PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION
ASH BASIN WASTE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL BOUNDARY
- - - ASH BASIN COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
LANDFILL COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
Q FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL BOUNDARY
NOTES:
ALL BOUNDARIES ARE APPROXIMATE.
TDS CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN WITH ACTIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEM.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OBTAINED FROM ESRI ON DECEMBER 4, 2019. AERIAL WAS COLLECTED
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2018.
DRAWING HAS BEEN SET WITH A PROJECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE PLANE
COORDINATE SYSTEM FIPS 3200 (NAD83).
�AAE
DUKE 1,100 GORAPHIC S 1,100 2,200
%, ' ENERGY
IN FEET)
DRAWN BY: Y. GEBRAI DATE: 11/11/2019
REVISED BY: B. ELLIOTT DATE: 12/18/2019
CHECKED BY: E. WEBSTER DATE: 12/18/2019
APPROVED BY: B. WILKER DATE: 12/18/2019
PROJECT MANAGER: B. WILKER
FIGURE 6-18b
SIMULATED MAXIMUM TDS CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL NON -
ASH LAYERS FOR THE CLOSURE -BY -EXCAVATION SCENARIO
AFTER 9 YEARS OF ACTIVE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
UPDATED GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT
MODELING REPORT
MARSHALL STEAM STATION
TERRELL, NORTH CAROLINA
Updated Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling Report December 2019
Marshall Steam Station, Terrell, North Carolina
TABLES
Updated Groundwater Flow And Transport Modeling Report December 2019
Marshall Steam Station, Terrell, North Carolina
TABLE 5-1
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND COMPUTED HEADS FOR THE
CALIBRATED FLOW MODEL
Well
Observed Head
Computed Head
Residual Head
AB-10D
790.48
791.03
-0.56
AB-10BR
790.96
791.11
-0.15
AB-10BRL
796.12
791.31
4.81
AB-10S
791.59
790.62
0.97
AB-10SL
790.73
790.90
-0.16
AB-11D
796.23
796.95
-0.72
AB-11S
795.13
796.56
-1.43
AB-12BR
794.41
791.95
2.46
AB-12D
791.58
791.92
-0.34
AB-12S
790.55
791.99
-1.44
AB-12SL
790.69
791.89
-1.20
AB-13 D
798.41
804.30
-5.89
AB-13S
799.19
801.79
-2.60
AB-14D
811.60
817.51
-5.90
AB-14DU
814.80
818.77
-3.97
AB-14S
811.07
819.07
-7.99
AB-15BR
806.87
807.89
-1.02
AB-15D
803.71
808.01
-4.30
AB-15S
805.51
808.41
-2.90
AB-15SL
801.44
807.91
-6.48
AB-16D
815.82
815.41
0.41
AB-16DU
817.31
815.54
1.77
AB-16S
816.18
815.39
0.79
AB-17D
820.00
823.33
-3.33
AB-17S
819.32
824.82
-5.49
AB-18D
818.39
819.95
-1.56
AB-18DU
818.39
820.25
-1.86
AB-18S
818.32
819.90
-1.58
AB-1BRL
774.78
773.47
1.31
AB-1BRLL
776.23
773.08
3.15
AB-1BRLLL
777.18
771.41
5.77
AB-1BR
773.85
773.80
0.05
AB-1D
770.71
773.29
-2.57
AB-1S
767.97
772.35
-4.38
AB-20D
826.63
831.58
-4.95
AB-20S
828.56
831.76
-3.20
AB-21 D
793.11
794.19
-1.08
AB-21S
791.72
794.40
-2.68
AB-2D
767.52
762.53
4.99
AB-2S
761.51
761.52
-0.01
AB-3D
796.21
794.05
2.16
AB-3S
796.69
795.69
1.00
AB-4D
794.25
797.17
-2.92
AB-4S
798.21
797.65
0.55
AB-4SL
797.50
797.36
0.14
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TABLE 5-1
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND COMPUTED HEADS FOR THE
CALIBRATED FLOW MODEL
Well
Observed Head
Computed Head
Residual Head
AB-5BR
798.11
802.83
-4.72
AB-5D
798.65
802.84
-4.19
AB-5DU
796.93
802.99
-6.06
AB-5S
798.90
803.24
-4.34
AB-6BRL
819.27
820.33
-1.06
AB-6BR
817.69
820.03
-2.34
AB-6BRA
820.24
820.38
-0.14
AB-6D
819.97
820.23
-0.26
AB-6S
821.76
820.80
0.96
AB-7D
815.46
817.79
-2.32
AB-7DU
819.14
818.69
0.44
AB-7S
816.82
818.41
-1.59
AB-8D
792.42
795.41
-2.99
AB-8DU
793.69
795.34
-1.65
AB-8S
792.06
794.80
-2.73
AB-9BR
790.58
790.38
0.20
AB-9D
789.90
790.42
-0.52
AB-9S
790.64
790.34
0.30
AL-1BR
777.33
777.35
-0.02
AL-1BRL
780.25
777.88
2.36
AL-1D
774.50
777.48
-2.98
AL-1S
779.60
777.67
1.94
AL-2BRLLL
799.02
798.32
0.70
AL-2BRLL
798.05
798.28
-0.23
AL-2BRL
799.06
798.17
0.89
AL-2BR
802.27
797.99
4.28
AL-2D
800.48
797.98
2.50
AL-2S
799.13
798.41
0.72
AL-3BR
804.05
805.79
-1.74
AL-3D
804.68
805.84
-1.16
AL-3S
804.89
806.13
-1.24
AL-4BR
809.43
802.17
7.25
AL-4BRL
797.69
802.78
-5.09
AL-4D
811.15
802.25
8.90
BG-1BR Second
799.68
804.61
-4.94
BG-1D
805.43
805.71
-0.28
BG-1S
808.59
806.52
2.07
BG-2BR
808.50
810.87
-2.37
BG-2S
810.01
812.46
-2.45
BG-3BR
832.31
830.24
2.07
BG-3D
836.46
831.64
4.82
BG-3S
834.98
832.76
2.21
CCR-11 D
787.80
786.37
1.42
CCR-11S
787.72
787.97
-0.25
CCR-12D
788.43
788.76
-0.33
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TABLE 5-1
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND COMPUTED HEADS FOR THE
CALIBRATED FLOW MODEL
Well
Observed Head
Computed Head
Residual Head
CCR-12S
788.45
788.89
-0.44
CCR-13 D
787.40
786.67
0.73
CCR-13S
787.56
786.88
0.67
CCR-14D
787.64
787.11
0.53
CCR-14S
787.54
787.15
0.39
CCR-15D
794.47
792.22
2.25
CCR-15S
794.42
792.27
2.15
CCR-16D
798.35
802.44
-4.10
CCR-16S
808.34
804.93
3.41
CCR-1D
796.60
797.33
-0.73
CCR-is
798.34
797.71
0.62
CCR-2D
794.58
792.31
2.27
CCR-2S
794.56
792.95
1.60
CCR-3D
759.42
759.75
-0.32
CCR-3S
758.79
759.42
-0.63
CCR-4D
761.80
759.98
1.81
CCR-4S
760.73
759.75
0.98
CCR-5D
762.64
759.40
3.24
CCR-5S
761.69
759.10
2.59
CCR-9DA
770.63
773.11
-2.48
CCR-9S
767.20
775.24
-8.04
CP-1S
792.50
788.28
4.22
CP-1 D
792.23
788.04
4.19
CP-2S
800.51
799.79
0.72
CP-2D
800.44
799.12
1.32
CP-3S
796.54
797.56
-1.02
CP-3D
797.16
792.71
4.45
GP-1S
802.12
802.47
-0.35
GP-1D
802.16
801.80
0.36
GP-2S
805.31
804.44
0.86
GP-2D
805.11
803.10
2.00
GP-3S
804.55
805.00
-0.45
GP-3D
805.20
800.26
4.93
PVSF-1S
827.48
830.62
-3.14
PVSF-1D
827.23
829.90
-2.68
PVSF-1BR
826.44
829.63
-3.19
PVSF-2S
821.84
826.28
-4.44
PVSF-2D
821.74
826.32
-4.58
PVSF-2BR
821.45
826.34
-4.89
PVSF-3S
821.31
826.01
-4.70
PVSF-3D
824.09
826.69
-2.60
PVSF-3BR
821.47
826.82
-5.36
GWA-10D
767.92
765.60
2.32
GWA-10S
765.21
764.34
0.87
GWA-11BR
764.04
766.06
-2.02
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TABLE 5-1
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND COMPUTED HEADS FOR THE
CALIBRATED FLOW MODEL
Well
Observed Head
Computed Head
Residual Head
GWA-11D
764.19
765.95
-1.77
GWA-11S
766.39
766.17
0.22
GWA-12BR
859.32
861.13
-1.82
GWA-12D
859.98
861.20
-1.23
GWA-12S
871.83
873.05
-1.22
GWA-13D
860.44
864.69
-4.25
GWA-13DA
863.11
864.58
-1.47
GWA-13S
866.20
866.63
-0.43
GWA-14D
868.97
865.22
3.76
GWA-14S
868.92
866.38
2.54
GWA-15D
758.27
759.18
-0.91
GWA-15S
757.84
759.01
-1.17
GWA-1BR
764.62
764.18
0.44
GWA-1D
762.30
764.24
-1.94
GWA-1S
762.61
764.34
-1.72
GWA-2DA
802.21
801.79
0.42
GWA-2D
803.19
802.08
1.11
GWA-2S
802.60
804.75
-2.15
GWA-3D
833.38
834.74
-1.36
GWA-3S
830.71
834.76
-4.06
GWA-4D
843.27
841.54
1.73
GWA-5D
811.13
813.97
-2.84
GWA-5S
812.58
815.75
-3.17
GWA-6D
802.89
803.06
-0.17
GWA-6S
803.05
803.12
-0.07
GWA-7D
802.32
798.05
4.27
GWA-7S
799.87
799.79
0.07
GWA-8D
817.32
815.74
1.58
GWA-8S
818.31
819.63
-1.32
GWA-9BR
846.50
845.57
0.93
ILF-1S
828.10
825.58
2.51
ILF-1D
827.14
825.80
1.33
ILF-1BR
822.67
826.10
-3.43
ILF-2S
837.43
840.87
-3.44
ILF-2D
838.51
840.90
-2.39
LRB-01S
800.56
805.12
-4.56
LRB-02S
803.42
805.88
-2.45
MS-10
834.11
833.53
0.58
MS-11
826.28
825.63
0.65
MS-12
813.41
814.51
-1.10
MS-13
811.86
813.13
-1.28
MS-14
807.73
807.38
0.35
MS-15
820.33
815.00
5.33
MS-16
811.88
815.35
-3.47
MS-8
827.10
827.82
-0.72
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TABLE 5-1
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND COMPUTED HEADS FOR THE
CALIBRATED FLOW MODEL
Well
Observed Head
Computed Head
Residual Head
MS-9
825.70
823.08
2.62
MW-1
772.97
777.87
-4.90
MW-10D
756.85
758.84
-1.99
MW-10S
756.91
759.51
-2.60
M W-11 D
840.79
845.60
-4.81
MW-11S
840.67
846.61
-5.94
MW-12D
857.52
859.81
-2.30
MW-12S
858.74
860.99
-2.24
MW-13D
844.03
844.89
-0.86
MW-13S
842.83
844.91
-2.08
MW-14BR
774.62
775.57
-0.95
MW-14BRL
783.49
777.80
5.69
MW-14D
773.57
775.34
-1.77
MW-14S
774.03
775.46
-1.42
MW-2
791.23
792.08
-0.85
MW-3
805.11
805.74
-0.63
MW-4
828.77
831.48
-2.71
MW-4D
828.08
829.85
-1.77
MW-5
797.31
797.78
-0.47
MW-6D
772.72
768.20
4.52
M W-6S
770.21
768.27
1.94
MW-7
813.24
813.71
-0.47
MW-7D
769.87
766.17
3.70
MW-7S
762.48
765.80
-3.32
MW-8D
760.39
759.04
1.35
MW-8S
758.46
758.87
-0.41
MW-9D
759.38
758.18
1.20
MW-9S
761.36
757.18
4.18
MW-PZ1
817.07
818.08
-1.01
MW-PZ10
821.08
820.86
0.22
MW-PZ2
818.89
817.75
1.14
MW-PZ3
809.54
811.37
-1.84
MW-PZ4
810.12
811.79
-1.67
M W-PZ5
808.55
809.52
-0.97
MW-PZ6
808.93
809.58
-0.65
MW-PZ7
803.44
805.49
-2.05
MW-PZ9
806.15
806.69
-0.54
OB-1 Ash Basin
802.79
806.77
-3.98
OB-1 (Dry Ash Landfill
780.50
782.58
-2.08
OB-2 (MW-6)
809.83
805.50
4.34
Notes:
Ft - feet
Ft. NAVD 88 - North American Vertical Datum of 1988
Prepared by: YG Checked by: WG
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TABLE 5-2
CALIBRATED HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS
Hydrostratigraphic
Unit
Model
Layers
Spatial Zones (number
corresponds to Figures
5-1 through 5-7)
Horizontal
Hydraulic
Conductivity,
ft/d
Anisotropy
ratio,
Kh:Kv
Ash Basin, Landfills,
Structural Fill
1-4
#2, 6, 10, 11 coal ash
2.0
10
Ash Basin (pond)
1-4
#5 pond
100
1
Ash Basin Dam
1-4
#1 ash basin dam
0.03
5
Sa rolite
5
#37 sa rolite main model
1.0
1
5
#1
0.1
1
5
#2
0.1
1
5
#3
1
1
5
#4
1
1
5
#5
0.5
1
5
#6
3
1
5
#7
1
1
5
#8
4
1
5
#9
5
1
5
#10
2
1
5
#11
1
1
5
#12
0.1
1
5
#13
0.5
1
5
# 14
0.05
1
5
#15
0.5
1
5
#16
0.1
1
5
#17
3
1
5
#18
10
1
5
#19
0.2
1
5
#20
0.1
1
5
#21
0.05
1
5
#22
0.03
1
5
#23
0.3
1
5
#24
0.05
1
5
#25
1
1
5
#26
0.01
1
5
#27
3
1
5
#28
10
1
5
#29
0.1
1
5
#30
0.2
1
5
#31
0.02
1
5
#32
3
1
5
#33
0.3
1
5
#34
0.3
1
5
#35
0.01
1
5
#36
0.1
1
6
#33
1
1
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TABLE 5-2
CALIBRATED HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS
Hydrostratigraphic
Unit
Model
Layers
Spatial Zones (number
corresponds to Figures
5-1 through 5-7)
Horizontal
Hydraulic
Conductivity,
ft/d
Anisotropy
ratio,
Kh:Kv
6
#1
0.1
1
6
#2
0.1
1
6
#3
0.1
1
6
#4
0.5
1
6
#5
3
1
6
#6
1
1
6
#7
5
1
6
#8
2
1
6
#9
1
1
6
#10
0.1
1
6
#11
0.05
1
6
#12
0.5
1
6
#13
0.1
1
6
# 14
0.05
1
6
#15
10
1
6
#16
0.2
1
6
#17
0.1
1
6
# 18
0.05
1
6
#19
0.03
1
6
#20
0.3
1
6
#21
0.05
1
6
#22
0.02
1
6
#23
3
1
6
#24
10
1
6
#25
0.1
1
6
#26
0.1
1
6
#27
0.02
1
6
#28
3
1
6
#29
0.3
1
6
#30
0.3
1
6
#31
0.01
1
6
#32
0.1
1
7
#33
1
1
7
#1
0.1
1
7
#2
1
1
7
#3
0.1
1
7
#4
0.1
1
7
#5
3
1
7
#6
1
1
7
#7
5
1
7
#8
3
1
7
#9
2
1
7
#10
0.1
1
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TABLE 5-2
CALIBRATED HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS
Hydrostratigraphic
Unit
Model
Layers
Spatial Zones (number
corresponds to Figures
5-1 through 5-7)
Horizontal
Hydraulic
Conductivity,
ft/d
Anisotropy
ratio,
Kh:Kv
7
#11
0.05
1
7
#12
0.5
1
7
#13
0.2
1
7
# 14
0.1
1
7
#15
8
1
7
#16
0.2
1
7
#17
0.1
1
7
#18
0.1
1
7
# 19
0.03
1
7
#20
0.3
1
7
#21
0.05
1
7
#22
0.05
1
7
#23
3
1
7
# 24
8
1
7
#25
0.05
1
7
#26
0.1
1
7
#27
0.02
1
7
#28
3
1
7
#29
0.3
1
7
#30
0.3
1
7
#31
0.01
1
7
#32
0.1
1
8
#40
1
1
8
#1
0.1
1
8
#2
0.1
1
8
#3
0.1
1
8
#4
2
1
8
#5
1
1
8
#6
0.5
1
8
#7
0.2
1
8
#8
0.5
1
8
#9
1
1
8
#10
5
1
8
#11
1
1
8
#12
0.2
1
8
#13
1
1
8
# 14
2
1
8
#15
1
1
8
#16
0.1
1
8
# 17
0.05
1
8
#18
0.5
1
8
#19
0.2
1
8
#20
15
1
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TABLE 5-2
CALIBRATED HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS
Hydrostratigraphic
Unit
Model
Layers
Spatial Zones (number
corresponds to Figures
5-1 through 5-7)
Horizontal
Hydraulic
Conductivity,
ft/d
Anisotropy
ratio,
Kh:Kv
8
#21
0.2
1
8
#22
8
1
8
#23
0.2
1
8
#24
0.2
1
8
#25
0.1
1
8
#26
0.03
1
8
#27
0.3
1
8
#28
0.05
1
8
#29
0.02
1
8
#30
3
1
8
#31
10
1
8
#32
0.05
1
8
#33
0.1
1
8
#34
0.02
1
8
#35
3
1
8
#36
0.3
1
8
#37
0.3
1
8
#38
0.01
1
8
#39
0.1
1
Transition Zone
9
#33 main model
1.5
1
9
#1
0.1
1
9
#2
0.05
1
9
#3
0.05
1
9
#4
0.1
1
9
#5
0.1
1
9
#6
0.01
1
9
#7
0.5
1
9
#8
0.5
1
9
#9
4
1
9
#10
5
1
9
#11
0.05
1
9
#12
0.01
1
9
#13
0.1
1
9
# 14
1
1
9
#15
1.5
1
9
#16
0.5
1
9
#17
0.2
1
9
#18
0.1
1
9
#19
0.1
1
9
#20
0.1
1
9
#21
0.008
1
9
#22
1.5
1
9
#23
1
1
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TABLE 5-2
CALIBRATED HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS
Hydrostratigraphic
Unit
Model
Layers
Spatial Zones (number
corresponds to Figures
5-1 through 5-7)
Horizontal
Hydraulic
Conductivity,
ft/d
Anisotropy
ratio,
Kh:Kv
9
#24
0.02
1
9
#25
8
1
9
#26
0.5
1
9
#27
1
1
9
#28
0.05
1
9
#29
1
1
9
#30
1.5
1
9
#31
0.02
1
9
#32
0.02
1
Bedrock (Upper)
10
#33 main model
0.7
1
10
#1
0.05
1
10
#2
0.02
1
10
#3
0.1
1
10
#4
0.02
1
10
#5
0.1
1
10
#6
0.4
1
10
#7
0.02
1
10
#8
4.0
1
10
#9
0.2
1
10
#10
0.1
1
10
#11
0.05
1
10
#12
0.01
1
10
#13
0.2
1
10
# 14
0.7
1
10
#15
3.0
1
10
#16
0.1
1
10
#17
8.0
1
10
#18
10.0
1
10
# 19
0.01
1
10
#20
0.3
1
10
#21
0.3
1
10
#22
8.0
1
10
#23
0.5
1
10
#24
0.03
1
10
#25
0.05
1
10
#26
0.4
1
10
#27
4.0
1
10
#28
2.0
1
10
#29
0.005
1
10
#30
0.2
1
10
#31
0.05
1
10
#32
0.01
1
11
#26 main model
0.7
1
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TABLE 5-2
CALIBRATED HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS
Hydrostratigraphic
Unit
Model
Layers
Spatial Zones (number
corresponds to Figures
5-1 through 5-7)
Horizontal
Hydraulic
Conductivity,
ft/d
Anisotropy
ratio,
Kh:Kv
11
#1
0.1
1
11
#2
0.02
1
it
#3
1.0
1
11
#4
0.05
1
11
#5
0.003
1
11
#6
0.05
1
11
#7
0.1
1
11
#8
0.02
1
11
#9
0.02
1
11
#10
0.1
1
11
#11
0.01
1
11
#12
0.3
1
11
#13
0.1
1
11
#14
0.1
1
11
#15
0.1
1
11
#16
5.0
1
11
#17
0.005
1
11
#18
0.05
1
11
#19
0.4
1
11
#20
0.01
1
11
#21
0.005
1
11
#22
4.0
1
11
#23
2.0
1
11
#24
0.01
1
11
#25
0.01
1
12
#23 main model
0.7
1
12
# 1
0.02
1
12
#2
0.1
1
12
#3
1.0
1
12
#4
0.05
1
12
#5
0.005
1
12
#6
0.02
1
12
#7
0.1
1
12
#8
0.01
1
12
#9
0.3
1
12
#10
0.1
1
12
#11
0.1
1
12
#12
0.1
1
12
#13
10.0
1
12
#14
0.005
1
12
#15
0.05
1
12
# 16
0.4
1
12
#17
0.01
1
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TABLE 5-2
CALIBRATED HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS
Hydrostratigraphic
Unit
Model
Layers
Spatial Zones (number
corresponds to Figures
5-1 through 5-7)
Horizontal
Hydraulic
Conductivity,
ft/d
Anisotropy
ratio,
Kh:Kv
12
#18
0.01
1
12
# 19
4.0
1
12
#20
2.0
1
12
#21
0.01
1
12
#22
0.01
1
13
#21 main model
0.7
1
13
#1
0.02
1
13
#2
0.1
1
13
#3
0.1
1
13
#4
0.05
1
13
#5
0.005
1
13
#6
0.02
1
13
#7
0.1
1
13
#8
0.01
1
13
#9
0.3
1
13
#10
7.0
1
13
#11
0.2
1
13
#12
0.005
1
13
#13
0.05
1
13
# 14
0.4
1
13
#15
0.01
1
13
#16
0.01
1
13
#17
4.0
1
13
#18
2.0
1
13
#19
0.01
1
13
#20
0.01
1
Bedrock (mid -depth)
14-16
#8 main model
0.1
1
14-16
#1
0.01
1
14-16
#2
0.02
1
14-16
#3
0.02
1
14-16
#4
12
1
14-16
#5
0.005
1
14-16
#6
0.01
1
14-16
#7
0.01
1
Bedrock lower
17-21
#2 main model
0.01
1
17-21
#1
0.005
1
Notes:
Ft/d - feet per day
Kh - horizontal hydraulic conductivity
K - vertical hydraulic conductivity
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TABLE 5-3
WATER BALANCE ON THE GROUNDWATER FLOW SYSTEM
FOR PRE -DECANTED CONDITIONS
Water balance components
Flow in
(9Pm)
Flow out
(9Pm)
Direct recharge to the ash basin
136
Direct recharge to watershed outside of ash basin
346
Ash basin ponds
80
Drainage outside of the ash basin
345
Flow through and under the dam
217
Notes:
Gpm - gallons per minute
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TABLE 5-4
FLOW MODEL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
Parameter
Decrease
by 1/2
Calibrated
Increase
by 2
Recharge (8 in/yr)
6.35%
2.51%
10.39%
Ash Kh (2.0 ft/d)
2.79%
2.51%
2.35%
Saprolite Kh (1.0 ft/d)
2.80%
2.51%
2.59%
TZ Kh (1.5 ft/d)
2.59%
2.51%
2.47%
Upper Bedrock Kh (0.7 ft/d)
3.58%
2.51%
3.07%
Mid -depth Bedrock Kh (0.2 ft/d)
2.59%
2.51%
2.43%
Lower Bedrock Kh (0.01 ft/d)
2.54%
2.51%
2.52%
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Notes:
The normalized root mean square error (NRMSE) in the calculated heads is shown
In/yr - inches per year
Ft/d - feet per day
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TABLE 5-5A
ASH BASIN BORON SOURCE CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L)
USED IN HISTORICAL TRANSPORT MODEL
Concentration Zone #
Boron Concentration
Model Layers
1
4,000
1-5
2
5,000
1-5
5
500
1-3
6
500
1-3
7
3,500
1-4
8
100
1-4
9
20,000
1-4
10 (Now Phase II Landfill)
5,000 (1965 - 1986)
1-4
10,000 (1986 - 2019)
1-4
11
400
1-5
12
1,500
1-2
13
5,500
1-2
14
100
1-4
15
97,000
1-4
16
100
1-4
17
1,500
1-4
18
3,000
1-2
20
3,000
1-2
21
100
1-3
22
1,000
1-4
23
1,500
1-3
24
2,500
2-3
25 (Now PV Structural
Fill
28,000
1-3
26
900
1-3
27
12,000
1-4
28
1,500
1-4
29
1,200
1-2
30
3,000
1-3
31
5,000
1-5
32 (Now PV Structural
Fill
5,000 (1965-2000)
1-4
20,000 (2000-2019)
1-4
33 (Now PV Structural
Fill)
5,000 (1965-2000)
1-3
70,000 (2000-2019)
1-3
Notes:
pg/L - micrograms per liter
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TABLE 5-5B
ASH BASIN STRONTIUM SOURCE CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L)
USED IN HISTORICAL TRANSPORT MODEL
Concentration Zone #
Boron Concentration
Model Layers
1
0
1-5
2
0
1-5
5
2,000
1-3
6
2,000
1-3
7
2,500
1-4
8
100
1-4
9
9,000
1-4
10 (Now Phase II Landfill)
500 (1965 - 1986)
1-4
5,000 (1986 - 2019)
1-4
11
1,000
1-5
12
2,000
1-2
13
2,000
1-2
14
100
1-4
15
12,000
1-4
16
100
1-4
17
1,000
1-4
18
3,000
1-2
20
2,000
1-2
21
3,000
1-3
22
1,000
1-4
23
3,000
1-3
24
1,500
1-3
25 Now PV Structural Fill
3,500
1-3
26
6,000
1-3
27
6,000
1-4
28
3,000
1-4
29
1,000
1-2
30
2,000
1-3
31
11,000
1-5
32 Now PV Structural Fill
500 1965-2000
1-4
5,000 2000-2019
1-4
33 Now PV Structural Fill
100 (1965-2000)
1-3
500(2000-2019)
1-3
Notes:
pg/L - micrograms per liter
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TABLE 5-5C
ASH BASIN TDS SOURCE CONCENTRATIONS (mg/L)
USED IN HISTORICAL TRANSPORT MODEL
Concentration Zone #
TDS Concentration
Model Layers
1
0
1-5
2
100
1-5
5
1,000
1-3
6
600
1-3
7
1,000
1-4
8
100
1-4
9
2,000
1-4
10 (Now Phase II Landfill)
1,000 (1965 - 1986)
1-4
2,000 (1986 - 2019)
1-4
11
300
1-5
12
500
1-2
13
3,000
1-2
14
100
1-4
15
9,000
1-4
16
250
1-4
17
500
1-4
18
6,000
1-2
20
500
1-2
21
300
1-3
22
500
1-4
23
1,000
1-3
24
450
2-3
25 Now PV Structural Fill
2,000
1-3
26
500
1-3
27
3,500
1-4
28
500
1-4
29
600
1-2
30
400
1-3
31
800
1-5
32 Now PV Structural Fill
500 1965-2000
1-4
1000 2000-2019
1-4
33 Now PV Structural Fill
500 (1965-2000)
1-3
5,000 (2000-2019)
1-3
Notes:
mg/L - milligrams per liter
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TABLE 5-6A
ASH LANDFILL AND STRUCTURAL FILL BORON SOURCE
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) USED IN HISTORICAL TRANSPORT MODEL
Phase 1
Phase
Phase II
Phase II
Phase
Phase
PV
Date
LF (#1)
1 LF
LF (#4)
LF (#5)
II LF
II LF
Structural
(#2)
(#6)
(#7)
Fill (#8)
1965-1984
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1984-1986
3,500
4,500
0
0
0
0
0
1986-2000
3,500
4,500
50,000
77,000
77,000
1,000
0
2000-2019
3,500
4,500
50,000
77,000
77,000L
1,000
20,000
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Notes:
pg/L - micrograms per liter
TABLE 5-6B
ASH LANDFILL AND STRUCTURAL FILL STRONTIUM SOURCE
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) USED IN HISTORICAL TRANSPORT MODEL
Phase 1
Phase
Phase II
Phase II
Phase
Phase
PV
Date
LF (#1)
1 LF
LF (#4)
LF (#5)
II LF
II LF
Structural
#2
#6
#7
Fill #8
1965-1984
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1984-1986
2,000
5,000
0
0
0
0
0
1986-2000
2,000
5,000
11,000
15,000
7,000
100
0
2000-2019
2,000
5,000
11,000
15,000
7,000
100
200
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Notes:
pg/L - micrograms per liter
TABLE 5-6C
ASH LANDFILL AND STRUCTURAL FILL TDS SOURCE
CONCENTRATIONS (mg/L) USED IN HISTORICAL TRANSPORT
MODEL
Phase 1
Phase
Phase II
Phase II
Phase
Phase
PV
Date
LF (#1)
1 LF
LF (#4)
LF (#5)
II LF
II LF
Structural
(#2)
(#6)
(#7)
Fill (#8)
1965-1984
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1984-1986
400
600
0
0
0
0
0
1986-2000
400
600
3,000
5,000
2,000
0
0
2000-2019
400
600
3,000
5,000
2,000
0
5,000
Notes
mg/L - milligrams per liter
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TABLE 5-7A
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED BORON
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed Boron
(Ng/L)
Computed Boron
(Ng/L)
AB-10BR
228
313
AB-10BRL
0
-4
AB-10D
1420
1739
AB-10S
25100
20000
AB-10SL
11600
20000
AB-11D
0
86
AB-11S
0
57
AB-12BR
0
29
AB-12D
928
85
AB-12S
97300
97000
AB-12SL
4430
2463
AB-13D
0
530
AB-13S
958
900
AB-14D
502
562
AB-14DU
130
747
AB-14S
1300
1200
AB-15BR
0
993
AB-15D
36
1577
AB-15S
2980
2500
AB-15SL
214
1641
AB-16D
0
10
AB-16DU
0
24
AB-16S
132
67
AB-17D
0
187
AB-17S
22500
28000
AB-18D
0
147
AB-18DU
0
1436
AB-18S
2120
2457
AB-1BR
3430
2325
AB-1BRL
2730
2035
AB-1BRLL
2320
1814
AB-1 BRLLL
63
115
AB-1D
1180
1388
AB-1S
2390
2902
AB-20D
47
288
AB-20S
75800
70000
AB-21D
26
410
AB-21S
5770
3380
AB-2BR
0
9
AB-2D
270
112
AB-2S
0
23
AB-3D
170
121
AB-3S
1520
1500
AB-4D
350
35
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TABLE 5-7A
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED BORON
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed Boron
(Ng/L)
Computed Boron
(Ng/L)
AB-4S
226
400
AB-4SL
588
271
AB-5BR
0
2
AB-5 D
29
2
AB-5DU
44
73
AB-5S
2750
3000
AB-6BR
0
633
AB-6BRA
244
779
AB-6BRL
0
262
AB-6D
5220
1651
AB-6S
3000
5000
AB-7D
0
-9
AB-7DU
236
-66
AB-7S
11300
11688
AB-8D
0
10
AB-8DU
111
71
AB-8S
1280
1000
AB-9BR
0
48
AB-9D
0
76
AB-9S
33
980
AL-1 BR
663
1146
AL-1 BRL
0
4
AL-1 D
3260
2429
AL-1S
2640
3174
AL-2BR
4820
4941
AL-2BRL
2130
5293
AL-2BRLL
10600
6771
AL-2BRLLL
0
28
AL-2D
12300
6995
AL-2S
12900
16760
AL-3BR
1170
1183
AL-3D
5640
3026
AL-3S
63900
77000
AL-4BR
9420
15373
AL-4BRL
29
141
AL-4D
22100
15373
BG-1BR Second
0
0
BG-1D
0
0
BG-1S
32
0
BG-2BR
0
0
BG-2S
0
0
BG-3BR
0
0
BG-3D
0
0
BG-3S
0
0
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TABLE 5-7A
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED BORON
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed Boron
(Ng/L)
Computed Boron
(Ng/L)
CCR-11D
3380
2694
CCR-11S
4620
3500
CCR-12D
12
17
CCR-12S
3630
3500
CCR-13D
322
794
CCR-13S
1810
1105
CCR-14D
2280
1530
CCR-14S
3500
4500
CCR-15D
3
9
CCR-15S
7
1
CCR-16D
4
1
CCR-16S
12
2
CCR-1D
7
98
CCR-1S
25
98
CCR-2D
155
272
CCR-2S
121
732
CCR-3 D
7
41
CCR-3S
14
1
CCR-4D
27
130
CCR-4S
323
78
CCR-5D
10
8
CCR-5S
182
89
CCR-9DA
29
595
CCR-9S
3710
2397
GWA-10D
0
7
GWA-10S
98
26
GWA-11BR
0
-19
GWA-11D
1070
1400
GWA-11S
2610
2310
GWA-12BR
0
0
GWA-12D
0
0
GWA-12S
0
0
GWA-13DA
0
0
GWA-13S
28
0
GWA-14D
0
0
GWA-14S
0
0
GWA-15D
70
277
GWA-15S
1720
1869
GWA-1BR
0
68
GWA-1D
0
27
GWA-1S
0
0
GWA-2D
0
0
GWA-2 DA
0
0
GWA-2S
0
0
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TABLE 5-7A
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED BORON
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed Boron
(Ng/L)
Computed Boron
(Ng/L)
GWA-3D
0
0
GWA-3S
0
0
GWA-4D
0
0
GWA-5D
0
0
GWA-5S
0
0
GWA-6D
0
0
GWA-6S
0
0
GWA-7D
0
0
GWA-7S
0
0
GWA-8D
0
0
GWA-8S
0
0
GWA-9BR
0
0
MS-10
0
0
MS-11
0
0
MS-12
0
0
MS-13
0
0
MS-14
0
0
MS-15
0
0
MS-16
0
0
MS-8
0
0
MS-9
0
0
MW-1
197
1711
MW-10D
0
18
MW-10S
6
-1
MW-11D
0
0
MW-11S
0
0
MW-12D
0
0
MW-12S
0
0
MW-13D
0
0
MW-13S
0
0
MW-14BR
131
311
MW-14BRL
0
0
MW-14D
2020
1125
MW-14S
2480
2064
MW-2
3110
2895
MW-3
0
101
MW-4
0
0
MW-4D
0
0
MW-5
0
219
MW-6D
194
205
MW-6S
265
79
MW-7
0
-98
MW-7D
401
1619
MW-7S
3470
2453
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TABLE 5-7A
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED BORON
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed Boron
(pg/L)
Computed Boron
(pg/L)
MW-8D
267
200
MW-8S
213
329
MW-9D
485
92
MW-9S
28
197
OB-1 Ash Basin
0
0
OB-1 (Dry Ash Landfill
2980
3148
Notes:
pg/L - micrograms per liter
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TABLE 5-7B
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED STRONTIUM
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed Strontium
(Ng/L)
Computed Strontium
(Ng/L)
AB-10BR
4080
171
AB-10BRL
3700
-2
AB-10D
2900
886
AB-10S
7200
9000
AB-10SL
6330
9000
AB-11D
1140
76
AB-11S
38
58
AB-12BR
0
13
AB-12D
9910
30
AB-12S
6400
12000
AB-12SL
4070
416
AB-13 D
682
324
AB-13S
3310
6000
AB-14D
552
812
AB-14DU
351
936
AB-14S
1760
1000
AB-15BR
1060
1012
AB-15D
674
1464
AB-15S
4600
1500
AB-15SL
742
1443
AB-16D
433
276
AB-16DU
817
853
AB-16S
315
2032
AB-17D
106
72
AB-17S
2000
3500
AB-18D
186
471
AB-18DU
133
1613
AB-18S
2720
1880
AB-1BR
2420
1930
AB-1BRL
2040
1915
AB-1 BRLL
1840
1814
AB-1BRLLL
1100
180
AB-1D
2440
1484
AB-1S
627
1217
AB-20D
503
44
AB-20S
0
500
AB-21D
690
602
AB-21S
1720
1329
AB-02BR
1200
140
AB-2D
608
1224
AB-2S
15
168
AB-3D
1310
1160
AB-3S
1530
2000
AB-4D
243
373
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TABLE 5-7B
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED STRONTIUM
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed Strontium
(Ng/L)
Computed Strontium
(Ng/L)
AB-4S
644
1000
AB-4SL
797
868
AB-5BR
3570
102
AB-5D
1810
82
AB-5DU
1460
622
AB-5S
4810
3000
AB-6BR
4340
2495
AB-6BRA
3060
2710
AB-6BRL
6420
1046
AB-6D
4430
5041
AB-6S
2810
11000
AB-7D
425
-28
AB-7DU
1090
-7
AB-7S
6420
5907
AB-8D
2220
15
AB-8DU
1590
77
AB-8S
1650
1000
AB-9BR
280
84
AB-9D
243
138
AB-9S
65
832
AL-1BR
3000
928
AL-1 BRL
1440
7
AL-1D
4860
1491
AL-1S
1800
1893
AL-2BR
3860
4669
AL-2BRL
4280
2784
AL-2BRLL
3990
3079
AL-2BRLLL
973
14
AL-2D
11100
6903
AL-2S
5580
7768
AL-3BR
1600
531
AL-3D
3140
2687
AL-3S
14900
15000
AL-4BR
3350
3531
AL-4BRL
1190
89
AL-4D
4730
3531
BG-1BR Second
178
0
BG-1D
686
0
BG-1S
108
0
BG-2BR
220
0
BG-2S
182
0
BG-3BR
168
0
BG-3D
143
0
BG-3S
115
0
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TABLE 5-7B
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED STRONTIUM
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed Strontium
(Ng/L)
Computed Strontium
(Ng/L)
CCR-9DA
750
11
CCR-9S
111
1
GWA-10 D
1840
9
GWA-10S
839
38
GWA-11BR
553
-13
GWA-11D
1710
1268
GWA-11S
970
1753
GWA-12BR
178
0
GWA-12D
285
0
GWA-12S
10
0
GWA-13DA
112
0
GWA-13S
9
0
GWA-14D
79
0
GWA-14S
17
0
GWA-15D
1120
753
GWA-15S
1760
1584
GWA-1BR
299
193
GWA-1D
867
110
GWA-1S
33
2
GWA-2D
600
0
GWA-2DA
931
0
GWA-2S
68
0
GWA-3D
69
0
GWA-3S
41
0
GWA-4D
131
0
GWA-4S
38
0
GWA-5D
83
0
GWA-5S
68
0
GWA-6D
220
0
GWA-6S
58
0
GWA-7D
195
0
GWA-7S
196
0
GWA-8D
169
0
GWA-8S
240
0
GWA-9BR
55
0
MS-10
16
0
MS-11
91
0
MS-12
33
0
MS-13
404
0
MS-14
398
0
MS-15
492
0
MS-16
310
0
MS-8
100
0
MS-9
190
0
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TABLE 5-7B
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED STRONTIUM
CONCENTRATIONS (Ng/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed Strontium
(pg/L)
Computed Strontium
(pg/L)
MW-1
3010
1795
MW-10D
96
15
MW-10S
4
0
MW-11D
96
0
MW-11S
90
0
MW-12D
156
0
MW-12S
14
0
MW-13D
66
0
MW-13S
59
0
MW-14BR
740
545
MW-14BRL
289
1
MW-14D
2170
2387
MW-14S
2420
3696
MW-2
1580
3230
MW-3
72
121
M W-4
102
0
MW-4D
210
0
MW-5
160
261
MW-6D
1980
74
MW-6S
11
4
MW-7
83
226
MW-7D
1440
2034
MW-7S
356
1764
MW-8D
1670
1059
MW-8S
1590
1102
MW-9D
1130
885
MW-9S
1090
1056
OB-1 Ash Basin
18
3
OB-1 (Dry Ash Landfill)
3320
1964
Notes:
pg/L - micrograms per liter
Prepared by: YG Checked by: WG
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TABLE 5-7C
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED TDS
CONCENTRATIONS (mg/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed TDS
(mg/L)
Computed TDS
(mg/L)
AB-10BR
335
405
AB-10BRL
358
4
AB-10D
338
661
AB-10S
1870
2000
AB-10SL
1320
2000
AB-11D
103
68
AB-11S
36
58
AB-12BR
426
13
AB-12D
622
26
AB-12S
7980
9000
AB-12SL
424
313
AB-13D
218
142
AB-13S
455
500
AB-14D
167
481
AB-14DU
126
559
AB-14S
379
600
AB-15BR
300
247
AB-15D
284
335
AB-15S
558
450
AB-15SL
254
411
AB-16D
226
32
AB-16DU
220
86
AB-16S
237
204
AB-17D
84
45
AB-17S
1130
2000
AB-18D
102
97
AB-18DU
125
323
AB-18S
374
376
AB-1BR
418
767
AB-1BRL
1350
765
AB-1 BRLL
704
741
AB-1 BRLLL
349
191
AB-1 D
574
633
AB-1S
452
511
AB-20D
148
320
AB-20S
4660
5000
AB-21D
208
902
AB-21S
1580
1994
AB-2BR
300
120
AB-2D
385
673
AB-2S
43
84
AB-3D
305
463
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TABLE 5-7C
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED TDS
CONCENTRATIONS (mg/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed TDS
(mg/L)
Computed TDS
(mg/L)
AB-3S
666
500
AB-4D
147
347
AB-4S
163
300
AB-4SL
144
263
AB-5BR
640
245
AB-5D
241
200
AB-5DU
241
1245
AB-5S
5540
6000
AB-6BR
421
244
AB-6BRA
347
243
AB-6BRL
573
128
AB-6D
345
369
AB-6S
557
800
AB-7D
112
-16
AB-7DU
188
-4
AB-7S
2500
3446
AB-8D
278
5
AB-8DU
256
38
AB-8S
387
500
AB-9BR
191
31
AB-9D
152
50
AB-9S
69
245
AL-1BR
418
346
AL-1BRL
482
23
AL-1D
561
340
AL-1S
345
378
AL-2BR
603
1763
AL-2BRL
710
1316
AL-2BRLL
1040
1205
AL-2BRLLL
374
13
AL-2D
1590
2157
AL-2S
2410
2122
AL-3BR
568
177
AL-3D
888
1105
AL-3S
4600
5000
AL-4BR
444
1050
AL-4BRL
322
70
AL-4D
1160
1050
BG-1BR Second
145
0
BG-1D
135
0
BG-1S
86
0
BG-2BR
150
0
BG-2S
119
0
BG-3BR
179
0
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TABLE 5-7C
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED TDS
CONCENTRATIONS (mg/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed TDS
(mg/L)
Computed TDS
(mg/L)
BG-3D
186
0
BG-3S
121
0
CCR-11D
570
312
CCR-11S
114
400
CCR-12D
135
20
CCR-12S
438
400
CCR-13D
405
338
CCR-13S
736
240
CCR-14D
511
208
CCR-14S
374
600
CCR-15D
121
24
CCR-15S
42
3
CCR-16D
148
2
CCR-16S
96
3
CCR-1 D
164
250
CCR-1S
90
245
CCR-2D
74
314
CCR-2S
61
375
CCR-3D
239
142
CCR-3S
45
8
CCR-4D
202
328
CCR-4S
332
317
CCR-5D
241
170
CCR-5S
281
350
CCR-9DA
288
39
CCR-9S
526
28
GWA-10D
452
2
GWA-10S
687
5
GWA-11BR
204
9
GWA-11D
269
270
GWA-11S
522
353
GWA-12BR
113
0
GWA-12D
150
0
GWA-12S
42
0
GWA-13DA
149
0
GWA-13S
83
0
GWA-14D
90
0
GWA-14S
31
0
GWA-15D
353
173
GWA-15S
474
321
GWA-1BR
176
196
GWA-1D
440
115
GWA-1S
60
3
GWA-2D
425
0
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TABLE 5-7C
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED TDS
CONCENTRATIONS (mg/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed TDS
(mg/L)
Computed TDS
(mg/L)
GWA-2DA
448
0
GWA-2S
203
0
GWA-3D
96
0
GWA-3S
66
0
GWA-4D
181
0
GWA-5D
73
0
GWA-5S
77
0
GWA-6D
99
0
GWA-6S
59
0
GWA-7D
45
0
GWA-7S
123
0
GWA-8D
83
0
GWA-8S
90
0
GWA-9BR
103
0
MS-10
35
0
MS-11
47
0
MS-12
25
0
MS-13
40
0
MS-14
48
0
MS-15
94
0
MS-16
80
0
MS-8
46
0
MS-9
46
0
MW-1
400
364
MW-10D
75
14
MW-10S
25
0
MW-11D
68
0
MW-11S
48
0
MW-12D
81
0
MW-12S
25
1
MW-13D
90
0
MW-13S
92
0
MW-14BR
0
88
MW-14BRL
211
2
MW-14D
433
290
M W-14S
594
445
MW-2
292
870
MW-3
68
86
MW-4
65
0
MW-4D
84
0
MW-5
75
123
MW-6D
437
16
MW-6S
61
4
MW-7
63
45
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TABLE 5-7C
COMPARISON OF OBSERVED AND SIMULATED TDS
CONCENTRATIONS (mg/L) IN MONITORING WELLS
Well
Observed TDS
(mg/L)
Computed TDS
(mg/L)
MW-7D
508
858
MW-7S
500
704
MW-8D
371
490
MW-8S
457
350
MW-9D
357
508
M W-9S
449
501
OB-1 Ash Basin
25
0
OB-1 (Dry Ash Landfill)
579
393
Notes•
mg/L - milligrams per liter
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TABLE 5-8
TRANSPORT MODEL SENSITIVITY TO Kd VALUES
Well
Boron
(Ng/L)
Boron model
calibrated
Model,
low Kd
Model,
high Ka
NRMSE
1.77%
4.55%
7.76%
AB-10BR
228
313
5678
9
AB-10BRL
0
-4
299
0
AB-10D
1420
1739
7961
811
AB-10S
25100
20000
20000
20000
AB-10SL
11600
20000
20000
20000
AB-11D
0
86
368
1
AB-11S
0
57
57
52
AB-12BR
0
29
160
0
AB-12D
928
85
302
0
AB-12S
97300
97000
97000
97000
AB-12SL
4430
2463
3366
364
AB-13D
0
530
1430
47
AB-13S
958
900
900
900
AB-14D
502
562
1906
15
AB-14DU
130
747
1291
85
AB-14S
1300
1200
1200
1200
AB-15BR
0
993
2023
183
AB-15D
36
1577
2375
344
AB-15S
2980
2500
2500
2500
AB-15SL
214
1641
2381
330
AB-16D
0
10
80
1
AB-16DU
0
24
38
3
AB-16S
132
67
72
36
AB-17D
0
187
671
0
AB-17S
22500
28000
28000
28000
AB-18D
0
147
733
1
AB-18DU
0
1436
2419
133
AB-18S
2120
2457
2819
1568
AB-1BR
3430
2325
2763
510
AB-1BRL
2730
2035
2769
310
AB-1BRLL
2320
1814
2711
150
AB-1BRLLL
63
115
1285
0
AB-1D
1180
1388
2393
18
AB-1S
2390
2902
2911
1736
AB-20D
47
288
3814
0
AB-20S
75800
70000
70000
70000
AB-21D
26
410
1653
5
AB-21S
5770
3380
3655
1227
AB-2BR
0
112
359
0
AB-2D
270
0
42
0
AB-2S
0
23
926
0
AB-3D
170
121
1500
0
AB-3S
1520
1500
313
1500
AB-4D
350
35
400
0
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TABLE 5-8
TRANSPORT MODEL SENSITIVITY TO Kd VALUES
Well
Boron
(Ng/L)
Boron model
calibrated
Model,
low Kd
Model,
high Ka
NRMSE
1.77%
4.55%
7.76%
AB-4S
226
400
349
400
AB-4SL
588
271
138
117
AB-5BR
50
2
114
0
AB-5D
29
2
616
0
AB-5DU
44
73
3000
1
AB-5S
2750
3000
1906
3000
AB-6BR
0
633
1757
74
AB-6BRA
244
779
1175
102
AB-6BRL
0
262
2307
11
AB-6D
5220
1651
5000
595
A13-6S
3000
5000
-54
5000
A13-7D
0
-9
-14
0
A13-7DU
236
-66
11814
-3
A13-7S
11300
11688
31
8945
AB-8D
0
10
77
3
AB-8DU
111
71
1000
32
AB-8S
1280
1000
182
1000
AB-9BR
0
48
287
26
AB-9D
0
76
1222
52
AB-9S
33
980
1821
418
AL-1BR
663
1146
293
174
AL-1BRL
0
4
2536
0
AL -ID
3260
2429
3301
1715
AL-1S
2640
3174
28860
734
AL-2BR
4820
4941
21610
11
AL-2BRL
2130
5293
16952
7
AL-2BRLL
10600
6771
250
80
AL-2BRLLL
0
28
34116
0
AL-2D
12300
6995
35351
73
AL-2S
12900
16760
2197
2399
AL-3BR
1170
1183
14730
72
AL-3D
5640
3026
77000
14
AL-3S
63900
77000
35569
77000
AL-4BR
9420
15373
2494
917
AL-4BRL
29
141
35569
0
AL-4D
22100
15373
0
917
BG-1BR (Second)
0
0
0
0
BG-1D
0
0
0
0
BG-1S
32
0
0
0
BG-2BR
0
0
0
0
BG-2S
0
0
0
0
BG-3BR
0
0
0
0
BG-3D
0
0
0
0
BG-3S
0
0
2708
0
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TABLE 5-8
TRANSPORT MODEL SENSITIVITY TO Kd VALUES
Well
Boron
(Ng/L)
Boron model
calibrated
Model,
low Kd
Model,
high Ka
NRMSE
1.77%
4.55%
7.76%
CCR-11D
3380
2694
3500
2264
CCR-11S
4620
3500
206
3500
CCR-12D
12
17
3500
0
CCR-12S
3630
3500
1524
3500
CCR-13D
322
794
1602
103
CCR-13S
1810
1105
1611
229
CCR-14D
2280
1530
4500
1072
CCR-14S
3500
4500
30
4500
CCR-15D
3
9
4
0
CCR-15S
7
1
9
0
CCR-16D
4
1
4
0
CCR-16S
12
2
100
1
CCR-1 D
7
98
98
60
CCR-1S
25
98
521
98
CCR-2D
155
272
856
4
CCR-2S
121
732
133
237
CCR-3D
7
41
7
0
CCR-3S
14
1
776
0
CCR-4D
27
130
203
0
CCR-4S
323
78
109
1
CCR-5D
10
8
176
0
CCR-5S
182
89
2115
0
CCR-9DA
29
595
3468
5
CCR-9S
3710
2397
20
716
GWA-10D
0
7
37
0
GWA-10S
98
26
346
0
GWA-11BR
0
-19
2455
-1
GWA-11D
1070
1400
3089
45
GWA-11S
2610
2310
0
337
GWA-12BR
0
0
0
0
GWA-12D
0
0
0
0
GWA-12S
0
0
0
0
GWA-13DA
0
0
0
0
GWA-13S
28
0
0
0
GWA-14D
0
0
0
0
GWA-14S
0
0
1597
0
GWA-15D
70
277
2815
0
GWA-15S
1720
1869
170
105
GWA-1BR
0
68
97
0
GWA-1 D
0
27
2
0
GWA-1S
0
0
0
0
GWA-2D
0
0
0
0
GWA-2DA
0
0
0
0
GWA-2S
0
0
0
0
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TABLE 5-8
TRANSPORT MODEL SENSITIVITY TO Kd VALUES
Well
Boron
(Ng/L)
Boron model
calibrated
Model,
low Kd
Model,
high Ka
NRMSE
1.77%
4.55%
7.76%
GWA-3D
0
0
0
0
GWA-3S
0
0
0
0
GWA-4D
0
0
0
0
GWA-5D
0
0
0
0
GWA-5S
0
0
0
0
GWA-6D
79
0
0
0
GWA-6S
55
0
0
0
GWA-7D
0
0
0
0
GWA-7S
0
0
0
0
GWA-8D
0
0
0
0
GWA-8S
0
0
0
0
GWA-9BR
0
0
0
0
MS-10
0
0
0
0
MS-11
0
0
0
0
MS-12
0
0
0
0
MS-13
0
0
0
0
MS-14
0
0
0
0
MS-15
0
0
0
0
MS-16
0
0
0
0
MS-8
0
0
0
0
MS-9
0
0
3186
0
MW-1
197
1711
422
132
MW-10D
50
18
-2
0
MW-10S
6
-1
0
0
MW-11D
0
0
0
0
MW-11S
0
0
0
0
MW-12D
0
0
4
0
MW-12S
0
0
0
0
MW-13D
0
0
0
0
MW-13S
0
0
696
0
MW-14BR
131
311
41
2
MW-14BRL
0
0
2214
0
MW-14D
2020
1125
3374
28
MW-14S
2480
2064
12831
129
M W-2
3110
2895
208
138
M W-3
0
101
0
9
MW-4
0
0
0
0
MW-4D
0
0
616
0
MW-5
0
219
211
13
MW-6D
194
205
162
115
M W-6S
265
79
2417
1
MW-7
0
-98
3080
-434
M W-7D
401
1619
2466
9
MW-7S
3470
2453
923
1392
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TABLE 5-8
TRANSPORT MODEL SENSITIVITY TO Kd VALUES
Well
Boron
(Ng/L)
Boron model
calibrated
Model,
low Kd
Model,
high Kd
NRMSE
1.77%
4.55%
7.76%
MW-8D
267
200
385
0
MW-8S
213
329
311
9
MW-9D
485
92
267
0
MW-9S
28
197
1
1
OB-1 Ash Basin
0
0
3442
0
OB-1 (Dry Ash Landfill
2980
3148
196
1352 11
Prepared by: YG Checked by: WG
Notes:
The calibrated model has a normalized root mean square error (NRMSE) of 10.2%. Boron concentrations are shown
for the calibrated model, and for models where the Kd is increased by a factor of 5 (high Kd) and decreased by a
factor of 5 (low Kd).
pg/L - micrograms per liter
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Marshall Steam Station, Terrell, North Carolina
TABLE 6-1
WATER BALANCE ON THE GROUNDWATER FLOW SYSTEM
FOR POST -DECANTING CONDITIONS
Flow in
Flow out
Water balance components
(9pm)
(9Pm)
Direct recharge to the ash basin
170
Direct recharge to watershed outside of ash
346
basin
Ash basin ponds
16
Drainage outside of the ash basin pond
350
Flow through and under the dam
150
Notes:
Gpm - gallons per minute
Prepared by: YG Checked by: WG
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TABLE 6-2
GROUNDWATER CLEAN INFILTRATION AND EXTRACTION WELL
INFORMATION
Number of Extraction
Wells
Formation
Total Depth (ft bgs)
0
Saprolite/TRZ
<100
32
Bedrock
100-150
19
Bedrock
150-200
15
Bedrock
200-250
Number of Clean Water
Infiltration Wells
Formation
Total Depth (ft bgs)
0
Saprolite
<20
1
Saprolite
20-40
10
Saprolite
40-60
13
Saprolite
60-80
Prepared by: YG Checked by: WG
Notes:
The 66 extraction wells have an average flow rate of 10 gpm. The extraction wells are pumped so that the water
levels are near the bottom of the wells.
The 24 clean water infiltration wells have an average flow rate of 11.5 gpm and the heads of the infiltration wells
are maintained a 2 ft below ground surface.
Ft - feet
Bgs - below ground surface
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