Through grants from U.S. EPA and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, a study was conducted to evaluate the impact of brine spreading for ice and dust control on groundwater quality. The project included routine application of oil & gas field brine on a constructed roadbed, sampling of water from lysimeters and shallow wells to evaluate the fate and transport of BTX, and use of resistivity and EM conductivity to track the movement of the chloride plume.

More information can be obtained from:

Chapman, M.J., and E.S. Bair, 1992. Mapping a brine plume using surface geophysical methods in conjunction with ground-water-quality data: Ground Water Monitoring Review, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 203-209.

Bair, E.S., and R.K. Digel, 1989. Subsurface transport of inorganic and organic solutes from experimental road spreading of oil-field brine: Ground Water Monitoring Review, vol 10, no. 3, p. 94-105.