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DISPOSAL WELL [4 records]

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Record 1 2011-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
DEF

Well to inject waters, usually under pressure, into a porous soil on rock aquifer. The waters may be treated wastewaters or surface waters injected for aquifer replenishment, or may be waters injected into unusable aquifers as a means of disposal of the wastes.

DEF

A well used for the injection of waste water or other fluids into the subsurface. Because the wastes rarely degrade to an innocuous condition but are simply stored, they are not truly disposed of; hence, this term is preferred to waste-disposal well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux
DEF

Puits absorbant servant à l'évacuation d'eau usée, d'effluents dans le sous-sol.

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-12-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
  • Nuclear Waste Materials
DEF

A well or borehole into which corrosive or otherwise dangerous liquids can be injected and left for disposal.

CONT

There are two forms of injection into deep geologic formations that have been suggested or used for LLW [low-level radioactive wastes] disposal: hydrofracture and deep well injection. Both methods are primarily useful only for liquid or finely ground wastes. They both take precautions to prevent contaminating useful aquifers by carefully selecting the geologic formations into which the waste is injected.

OBS

See also "waste disposal shaft."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets
  • Déchets nucléaires
OBS

Voir aussi «puits de stockage».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de los desechos
  • Desechos nucleares
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Record 3 2000-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

A well into which salt water is pumped.

CONT

A typical [saltwater disposal] system is composed of collection centers (in which salt water from several wells is gathered), a central treating plant (in which salt water is conditioned ...), and disposal wells (in which treated salt water is injected into a suitable formation).

OBS

Usually such wells are part of a saltwater disposal system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Puits par lequel l'eau salée provenant des puits en production est renvoyée dans les formations souterraines.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

Well used for the disposal of polluted or drainage water, brines, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Puits ou trou destiné à collecter puis à faire infiltrer des eaux dont on veut se débarrasser.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento del agua
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
DEF

Pozo utilizado para la evacuación de aguas drenadas o contaminadas, salmueras, etc.

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