The extent of VOC contamination in disposal site ground water

Conference · Fri Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1993 · Journal of Environmental Health; (United States)

OSTI ID:6066355

Plumb, Jr, R H ^[1]

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1. Lockheed Environmental Programs Office, Las Vegas, NV (United States)

Monitoring results from more than 500 disposal site investigations were reviewed and tabulated to characterize the contaminants that have migrated into the ground water from these facilities. This effort identified more than 1,200 individual contaminants that have been reported in one or more site monitoring programs. An important outcome of this effort was to document the overall abundance outcome of this effort was to document the overall abundance of volatile organic compounds in disposal site ground water. Although a standard VOC scan only targets 31 compounds, 2.5 percent of the number of contaminants detected, these compounds represent more than 80 percent of the detectable events involving organic compounds. The project database was sorted using several geographical and regulatory classification factors to characterize the occurrence of volatile organic compounds in disposal site ground water. Each resultant subset of the composited in disposal site ground water. Each resultant subset of the composited monitoring data demonstrated the predominance of volatile compounds. The volatile compounds were the most abundant class of organic contaminants in the regional subsets corresponding to the individual EPA Regions.

• OSTI ID: 6066355
• Report Number(s): CONF-9310166--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Journal of Environmental Health; (United States) Journal Volume: 56:3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540220* -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
CONTAMINATION
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
GROUND WATER
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
MANAGEMENT
MASS TRANSFER
MONITORING
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WATER