SEDIMENT AND CONTAMINATION

TRANSPORT MITIGATION PROJECT

The Laboratory is implementing a watershed-scale project
to mitigate transport of legacy contaminated
sediment within the Los Alamos and Pueblo Canyon
watershed. The mitigation approach uses a variety
of structures located throughout the watershed, each with
a specific purpose towards either reducing the erosion
potential in stormwater runoff or to trap sediment being
transported in stormwater runoff.
The project also includes instrumentation of 3 stream gages to
enable real-time notification of floods to the Buckman Direct
Diversion project for their use in operational decisions.