- Long-Term Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability Strategy ›
- Clean the Past ›
- Control the Present ›
- Introduction
- Something in the Air? ›
- Protections: Sediment ›
- Protections: Sediment Control = Contaminant Retention
- Tour: Sediment Retention
- Protection #2: Trap and Remove Sediment
- Stormwater Controls
- Stop Contaminant Movement & the Individual Permit
- View of Stormwater Monitoring Sites
- Stormwater Control Structures
- How are the aftereffects of wildfire managed?
- Las Conchas Wildfire
- Stormwater Controls after Wildfire
- Los Alamos Canyon Weir
- 10,000 Willows
- Pueblo Canyon Grade Control Structure
- Early Notification Gages
- Protections: Sampling ›
- Protection #3: Sample and Survey
- Tour: Environmental Monitoring
- Groundwater Monitoring
- How does LANL determine where to put a monitoring well?
- Protection of the Groundwater Resource
- The Location Investigation Process
- The Location Determination Process
- Monitoring Well Placement
- Contaminant Sources
- Groundwater Monitoring Network
- View of Groundwater Monitoring Sites
- Well Placement Decision Process
- Create a Sustainable Future ›
- Multimedia ›
Protections: Sediment Control = Contaminant Retention
LANL maintains hundreds of wells, stream sampling stations and stormwater control structures to protect waters.
Los Alamos townsite bordered by Pueblo and Los Alamos Canyons
LANL constrains the flow of contaminated sediments into the Rio Grande.
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Every watershed at LANL has been evaluated and stormwater controls have been installed to keep contaminated sediment on LANL property. Every waste management area on mesa tops has been evaluated and 80% of planned controls were installed by 2012 for water running onto and from potentially contaminated sites. In Los Alamos and Pueblo canyons alone, over $5 million was spent from 2009 through 2011 to control sediment transport in storm water.