If contamination were a problem, they would need special training or we might not be allowed to bring students there at all. When groundwater is contaminated, researchers also incur the extra costs of treating and disposing of it once their studies are done. Toran and her fellow earth scientists are now looking for external funds to develop the site further. I have a colleague at Drexel who's already planning to bring students out to our site, because they don't have anything like it. We're talking about hydraulic conductivity in class, and we can just go out in the field and do it.
Students can design the tests and do the tests.
Jarrett Elsea, a graduate assistant in hydrogeology, believes the site will be a huge boon to undergraduate study. There are also plans to build a computer groundwater model.