2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 Radon in Groundwater of the South Texas Uranium District Track: Mining and Geosciences Author(s): Mark Beaman, Philippe Tissot Uranium and its radioactive daughter products are ubiquitous in the South Texas Tertiary environment. The effects of radon gas in groundwater upon the inhabitants of the counties where uranium mineralization occurs has not been sufficiently addressed in current scholarly literature. This work reviews the literature that is available for radon emanation in South Texas, the physics of the emanation of radon into ground waters, the distribution of public and private water wells relative to zones of uranium mineralization and the geologic controls upon uranium deposition. We present a GIS based model of the spatial factors controlling radon concentrations in ground waters in the proximity of the uranium district, the distribution and classification of the wells selected by the model and the preliminary results of model verification as determined by sampling and analyzing a subset of wells determined to be at risk of radon contamination. Mark Beaman Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science 6300 Ocean Drive Corpus Christi , TX 78412 US Phone: 361-825-3263 E-mail: mbeaman@cbi.tamucc.edu Philippe Tissot Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Physical and Life Sciences 6300 Ocean Drive Corpus Christi , TX 78412 US Phone: 361-825-3776 E-mail: ptissot@cbi.tamucc.edu |
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