Abstract
In 2018, the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) National Renewable Energy Coordination Office, through its Geothermal Program, funded the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to review existing literature for potential cases in which geothermal wells contributed to groundwater contamination. NREL conducted an extensive literature review but was unable to find any cases of groundwater contamination resulting from geothermal operations. This paper includes cases in which wellbore failures did not affect groundwater and areas where geothermal operations may have affected other resources, such as hot springs and geysers.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages | 1570-1587 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| State | Published - 2021 |
| Event | 2021 Geothermal Rising Conference: Using the Earth to Save the Earth (GRC 2021) - San Diego, California Duration: 3 Oct 2021 → 6 Oct 2021 |
Conference
| Conference | 2021 Geothermal Rising Conference: Using the Earth to Save the Earth (GRC 2021) |
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| City | San Diego, California |
| Period | 3/10/21 → 6/10/21 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5700-80391
Keywords
- BLM
- geothermal
- groundwater
- Long Valley Caldera
- Raft River
- Steamboat Springs
