The extent of VOC contamination in disposal site ground water
- 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-; CODEN: JEVHAH
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Environmental Health; (United States), Vol. 56:3; Conference: Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers (AGWSE) educational seminar on chlorinated volatile organic compounds in ground water, Kansas City, MO (United States), 17-20 Oct 1993; ISSN 0022-0892
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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