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An assessment of drinking-water supplies on the Hanford Site: an evaluation conducted at a federal nuclear facility in southeastern Washington State.


Delve further into groundwater contamination with this two-volume set.

Groundwater Contamination (Volumes 1 and 2)

Chester D. Rail (2000)

Fully updated and expanded into two volumes, Groundwater Contamination comprehensively explains the sources of groundwater contamination, the regulations governing gov·ern  
v. gov·erned, gov·ern·ing, gov·erns

v.tr.
1. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; exercise sovereign authority in.

2.
 it, and the technologies for abating it. Volume 1 covers all major contaminants and explains the hydrology hydrology, study of water and its properties, including its distribution and movement in and through the land areas of the earth. The hydrologic cycle consists of the passage of water from the oceans into the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration (or  and data used to determine the extent of pollution. Volume 2 discusses aquifer aquifer (ăk`wĭfər): see artesian well.
aquifer

In hydrology, a rock layer or sequence that contains water and releases it in appreciable amounts.
 management, including technologies to control and stabilize stabilize

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 multiple influxes into the water table. This volume outlines strategies for stormwater control and groundwater restoration, and presents numerous case histories of site analysis and remediation based on Department of Energy and state documents. Among the many new features of this edition are a full discussion of risk assessment, the preparation of groundwater protection plans, and references linking the text to over 2,000 water-related Web sites.

Volume 1, 187 pages, hardcover. Volume 2, 174 pages, hardcover. Member: $199.95. Nonmember: $233.50. Catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C.  #973.

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Date:Mar 1, 2005
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