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Groundwater quality at the Falcon Refinery Superfund Site near Ingleside, Texas, January 2024

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2024-01-22
End Date
2024-01-24

Citation

Adams, A.C., 2024, Groundwater quality at the Falcon Refinery Superfund Site near Ingleside, Texas, January 2024: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13PH27A.

Summary

The Falcon Refinery Superfund Site (hereinafter referred to as “the Site”) is located in San Patricio County near Ingleside, Texas. The Site occupies approximately 104 noncontiguous acres that are divided into the North Site, the South Site, and a barge dock facility. Surface water drainage from the Site enters wetlands along the southeastern section of the property associated with this abandoned refinery. The wetlands connect to the Intracoastal Waterway and Redfish Bay, which connects Corpus Christi Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to the abandoned refinery, the site currently (June 2024) includes seven large (greater than 50 feet in diameter) aboveground storage tanks that are in the process of being disassembled and repaired [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
Originator :
Alexandra C Adams
Metadata Contact :
Alexandra C Adams
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Falcon_Refinery_EPA.xml
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View 		59.13 KB application/fgdc+xml
FALCON_WELL_INFORMATION.txt 947 Bytes text/plain
FALCON_FIELD_PROPERTIES.txt 40.34 KB text/plain
FALCON_ORGANICS_DATA.txt 119.82 KB text/plain
FALCON_METALS_DATA.txt 45.48 KB text/plain
FALCON_TDS_DATA.txt 1.43 KB text/plain

Purpose

This data release documents water-quality data collected in January 2024 pertaining to the status of groundwater within the boundaries of the Falcon Refinery Superfund Site near Ingleside, Texas. In addition to the water -quality data from the water-quality samples collected at the Site, this data release also documents the results from the quality-control samples that were collected in conjunction with the environmental samples.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P13PH27A

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