Environmental Restoration Division
Standard Operating Procedures
for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore Site and Site 300

September 2003

UCRL-MA-109115 Rev. 11

All of these files are in Portable Document Format (PDF)


Front Cover and Table of Contents

  • Front Cover and Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1

  • SOP-1.1 - Field Borehole Logging
  • SOP-1.2 - Borehole Sampling of Unconsolidated Sediments and Rock
  • SOP-1.3 - Drilling
  • SOP-1.4 - Monitor Well Installation
  • SOP-1.5 - Monitor Well Development
  • SOP-1.6 - Borehole Geophysical Logging
  • SOP-1.7 - Well Closures
  • SOP-1.8 - Disposal of Investigation-Derived Wastes (Drill Cuttings, Core Samples, and Drilling Mud)
  • SOP-1.9 - Lysimeter Soil Moisture Sampling
  • SOP-1.10 - Soil Vapor Surveys
  • SOP-1.11 - Soil Surface Flux Monitoring of Gaseous Emission
  • SOP-1.12 - Surface Soil Sampling
  • SOP-1.13 - SIMCO Drill Rig Operation
  • SOP-1.14 - Final Well Development/Specific Capacity Tests at LLNL Livermore SIte
  • SOP-1.15 - Well Site Core Handling
  • SOP-1.16 - Four Wheel All Terrain Vehicle (ATV)
  • SOP-1.17 - Treatment Facility Vapor Sampling
  • SOP-1.18 - Deployment, Retrieval, Sampling and Maintenance of Instrumented Membrane Technology (IMT) Borehole-Liner Systems


  • Chapter 2

  • SOP-2.1 - Presample Purging of Wells
  • SOP-2.2 - Field Measurements on Surface and Ground Waters
  • SOP-2.3 - Sampling Monitor Wells with Bladder and Electric Submersible Pumps
  • SOP-2.4 - Sampling Monitor Wells with a Bailer
  • SOP-2.5 - Surface Water Sampling
  • SOP-2.6 - Sampling for Volatile Organic Compounds
  • SOP-2.7 - Presample Purging and Sampling of Low-Yielding Monitor Wells
  • SOP-2.8 - Installation of Dedicated Sampling Pumps
  • SOP-2.9 - Sampling for Tritium in Ground Water
  • SOP-2.10 - Well Disinfection and Coliform Bacteria Sampling
  • SOP-2.11 - "THIS SOP HAS BEEN DELETED" Developing Ground Water Monitoring Sampling Schedules
  • SOP-2.12 - Ground Water Monitor Well and Equipment Maintenance
  • SOP-2.13 - Barcad Sampling


  • Chapter 3

  • SOP-3.1 - Water Level Measurement
  • SOP-3.2 - Pressure Transducer Calibration
  • SOP-3.3 - Hydraulic Testing (Slug/Bail)
  • SOP-3.4 - Hydraulic Testing (Pumping)

  • Chapter 4

  • SOP-4.1 - General Instructions for Field Personnel
  • SOP-4.2 - Sample Control and Documentation
  • SOP-4.3 - Sample Containers and Preservation
  • SOP-4.4 - Guide to the Handling, Packaging, and Shipping of Samples
  • SOP-4.5 - General Equipment Decontamination
  • SOP-4.6 - QA/QC Objectives for Non-Radiological Data Generated by Analytical Laboratories
  • SOP-4.7A - Livermore Site Treatment and Disposal of Well Development and Well Purge Fluids
  • SOP-4.7B - Site 300 Treatment and Disposal of Well Development and Well Purge Fluids
  • SOP-4.8 - Calibration/Verification and Maintenance of Field Instruments Used in Measuring Parameters of Surface Water, Ground Water, and Soils
  • SOP-4.9 - Collection of Field QC
  • SOP-4.12 - Quality Improvement Forms (QIFs)
  • SOP-4.13 - Standard Operating Procedure Process
  • SOP-4.14 - Mapping with the Trimble Pathfinder Pro XR GPS System
  • SOP-4.15 - ERD Self-assessments and Walk-abouts
  • SOP-4.16 - ERD Lockout/Tag Program
  • SOP-4.17 - Change of Water Phase Granular Activated Carbon
  • SOP-4.18 - ERD Document Control

    Chapter 5

  • SOP-5.1 - Data Management Printed Analytical Result Receipt and Processing
  • SOP-5.2 - Data Management Chain-of-Custody Receipt and Processing
  • SOP-5.3 - Data Management Electronic Analytical Result Receipt and Processing for Sample and Analysis Data
  • SOP-5.4 - Data Management Hand Entry of Analytical Results
  • SOP-5.5 - Data Management Revision Receipt and Processing
  • SOP-5.6 - Ground Water Elevation Reports
  • SOP-5.8 - Field Logbook Control
  • SOP-5.10 - Data Managment Receipt and Processing of Lithologic Data by Electronic Transfer
  • SOP-5.14 - Issuing New Paramenter Codes
  • SOP-5.15 - Livermore Site Routine Groundwater Sampling Plan Preparation
  • SOP-5.20 - Cost Effective Sampling (CES) Algorithm Preparation and Processing
  • SOP-5.21 - Outlier Identification Program

  • Glossary

  • Glossary


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