Laboratory: ROBERT S. KERR WATER RESEARCH CENTER.

Laboratory size: 50,300 square feet.

Total laboratory personnel: 80.

Research, development, and demonstration personnel: 37.
Laboratory location: Ada, Oklahoma.

Program description: The programs at the Ada laboratory have been assigned on the basis of proximity to problem areas of specific industries. Ada is centrally located to the petroleum industry and related production and refining activities. The relatively flat topography of the area accounts for the reliance on ground water supplies. Ada is therefore the logical location for the problem of brine disposal, and the availability of personnel knowledgeable in well technology make it a natural location for the ultimate disposal-well program. Agricultural pollution problems of the area have also been included in the laboratory programs. Programs at the Ada laboratory include

Industrial pollution control technology: Petrochemicals, petroleum refining, petroleum based plastics.

Agricultural pollution control technology: Irrigation return flows, animal feed lot pollution, meat packing pollution.

Mining Pollution Control Technology: Oil production (on-shore), oil shale production.

Water Quality Control Technology: Fate of pollutants in ground water (saturated and unsaturated), effect of pollutants on soil and ground ecology.

Waste Treatment and Ultimate Disposal Technology: Ultimate waste disposal under ground in deep wells.

Budget: The approximate intramural research, development, and demonstration budget for the Ada laboratory is $0.7 million.

Major equipment: Direct reading emission spectrograph (simultaneous analysis of fifteen elements in water sample Jarrell-Ash Mark IV), atomic absorption spectrophotometer (Perkin-Elmer), auto-analyzer (automatic routine, colorimetric wet chemistry, analytical determinations-technicon).

Gas chromatographs, total organic carbon analyzer, infrared spectrophotometer, liquid scintillation spectrometer (Beckman LS-150), internal proportional counter (NMC).

Disciplines: Civil, sanitary, chemical engineers, inorganic, organic, physical chemists.

Laboratory: SOUTHEAST WATER LABORATORY.

Laboratory size: 56,134 square feet.

Total laboratory personnel: 103.

Research, development, and demonstration personnel: 61.
Laboratory location: Athens, Georgia.

Program description: The programs at the Athens laboratory have been assigned on the basis of proximity to problems associated with specific industries located in the area, and on the capabilities of the staff and unique characteristics of the facility.

Programs on fertilizers, pesticides, and rural runoff are related to citrus, cotton, and other agricultural activities typical of the Southeast. The programs on the synthetic fiber, Kraft paper, poultry processing, and phosphate mining industries are also based on the fact that these activities are indigenous to the Southeast.

The research methods, sources of pollutants and their fate in streams programs are located at Athens because of existing staff capabilities and the unique facilities characteristics. A $0.75 million eco-system simulator for the fate in streams program is located at Athens. These programs include fundamental and applied research concerning water contaminants characterization as well as determining the environmental degradative fate of pollutants from industrial and agricultural sources. The reesarch also includes development of pollution control technology for pollution from these sources.

The water contaminants characterization research program also develops means and special devices to permit rapid and economical detection, characterization, evaluation and monitoring of pollutants from all sources. It develops new and improved analytical methodology for non-routine applications which are primarily of a research nature to identify and characterize physical and chemical pollutants.

The pollution fate research program conducts fundamental and applied research to describe and predict the water quality at any point in our inland