Book Description

Environmental regulations place new responsibilities on property owners; Providing environmental impairment liability insurance coverage; Issues affecting contaminated soils management, the railroad industry perspective; Implications of dealing with real estate-based cleanup statutes; Current issues in management of motor fuel contaminated soils; EPRI sponsored research on underground storage tanks; Health effects research initiatives at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, applicability to contaminated soils; Underground storage tanks releases in Arizona, causes, extent, and remediation; State of research and regulatory apporach of state agencies for cleanup of petroleum contaminated soils; Analysis of petroleum contaminated soil and water, an overview; Field screening techniques, quick and effective tools for optimizing hazardous waste site investigations; Onsite analytical screening of gasoline contaminated media using a jar headspace procedure; Problems associated with analysis of petroleum derived materials in the environment; Three common misconceptions concerning the fate and cleanup of petroleum products in soil and groundwater; The effect of water soluble organic material on the transport of phenanthrene in soil; Stabilized petroleum waste interaction with silty clay subgrade; Enhanced bioremediation techinques for in situ and onsite treatment of petroleum contaminated soils and groundwater; Biodegradation of dissolved aromatic hydrocarbons in gasoline contaminated groundwaters using denitrification; Bioremediation of petroleum contaminated soils using a microbial consortia as inoculum; Cutoff walls to contain petroleum contaminated soils; Thermal desorption of hazardous and toxic organic compounds from soil matrices; Hot mix asphalt technology and the cleaning of contaminated soil; Removing petroleum products from soils with ozone, ultraviolet, ultrasonics, and ultrapure water; Cleanup of a gasoline contaminated site using vacuum extraction technology; Using soil vapor contaminant assessment at hydrocarbon contaminated sites; Application of quantitative risk assessment evaluation of underground storage tanks to insurance, banking, and real estate transactions; Assessment and remediation of residential properties contaminated with home heating oil, case studies; Overview, Risk assessment/risk management; Creative approaches in the study of complex mixtures, evaluating comparative potencies; How much soil do young children ingest, an epidemiologic study; Percutaneous absorption of Benzo(a)pyrene from soils with and without petroleum crude contamination; An overview and suggested methodology to determine the adequacy of cleanup of contaminated soils; Toward economically efficient management of underground storage tanks, a risk based approach; The California leaking underground fuel tank field manual, a guidance document for assessment of underground fuel leaks; Letting the sleeping dog lie, a case study in the no-action remediation alternative for petroleum contaminated soils; Council for Health and Environmental Safety of Soils (CHESS), a coalition to standardize soil contamination problems.