Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Office
The DOE Oversight Bureau office responsible for oversight and monitoring of the Los Alamos National Laboratory is located in White Rock, New Mexico.
The bureau assesses the potential impacts of past and present activities at LANL by monitoring groundwater conditions of municipal supply wells, the regional aquifer, surface water and ephemeral streams conditions, stormwater events, and springs. Stormwater monitoring at LANL focuses primarily on characterizing and quantifying offsite contaminant transport in the Los Alamos Canyon watershed. The LANL office also monitors radioactive particulate and tritium in the air at stations that are co-located with facility units, evaluates wastewater discharges at from four NPDES outfalls, and conducts biota monitoring.
The LANL office participates in public outreach by interacting with state legislature, local pueblos, professional organizations and citizen activist groups.
This page contains contact information for the LANL office and its staff members, as well as documents and photos related to its activities. Publications and monitoring data related to oversight at LANL can also be found on this site.
NM Environment Department
DOE Oversight Bureau
(LANL Oversight Section)
1183 Diamond Drive, Suite B
Los Alamos, NM 87544
or
NM Environment Department
DOE Oversight Bureau
PO Box 1663, MS M894
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Tel. (505) 661-2760
Fax (505) 661-4958
| Bill Bartels | Environmental Scientist | (505) 661-2689 |
| Dave Englert | Hydrologist (Santa Fe) | (505) 476-6022 |
| Ralph Ford-Schmid | Environmental Scientist (Santa Fe) | (505) 476-6023 |
| Erik Galloway | Hydrologist (Santa Fe) | (505) 476-6024 |
| Cecilia Garcia-Frank | Administrative Support | (505) 661-2670 |
| Kim Granzow | Environmental Scientist | (505) 661-4008 |
| Courtney Perkins | Environmental Scientist | (505) 661-2667 |
| Steve Yanicak | Staff Manager | (505) 661-2644 |
The following documents relate to the DOE Oversight Bureau's activities at LANL. These files are in PDF fomat, which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. This program is free to download. To save a file to your computer, right click on the PDF icon, select "Save Target As..." from the menu, and choose a location on your hard drive to store the file.
- Site-Specific Protocol for Environmental Oversight, Monitoring, and Emergency Response for LANL
- Memorandum of Understanding Between the DOE Oversight Bureau and the Environmental Restoration Project's Facility for Information Management, Analysis, and Display
- Memorandium of Understanding Between NMED and the Pueblo of San Ildefonso Regarding Environmental Monitoring and Sampling
Below are selected photos of DOE Oversight Bureau staff performing activities pertaining to environmental monitoring at LANL. You may click a photo to view its full-sized version.
11-24-2008: David Englert and Kim Granzow prepare a perchlorate column at Barbara Spring.
10-29-2008: Kim Granzow, Michael Dale (now with the Hazardous Waste Bureau), and David Englert record field parameters at the Valle Toledo Artesian Well.
09-19-2008: Ralph Ford-Schmid records field data for fish samples from the Rio Grande at Lyden, NM.
04-23-2008: Steve Yanicak collects a water sample at Spring 9A.
08-11-2006: David Englert sets a single-stage storm water sampler in Pueblo Canyon.
08-08-2006: Ralph Ford-Schmid collects a storm water runoff sample in Sandia Canyon at State Road 4.
05-25-2005: Steve Yanicak collects a high stage snow melt sample from the Rio Grande at Espanola, NM.
02-14-2005: Michael Dale (now with the Hazardous Waste Bureau) collects a tritium-helium sample from the stream in Pajarito Canyon (PA-10.6) for a joint project with LANL.
09-14-2004: David Englert is interviewed at Spring 2B by the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety group for a film about the Rio Grande.