Covers the fundamentals of hydrology and hydrogeology, taking an environmental slant dictated by the emphasis in recent times for the remediation of contaminated aquifers and surface-water bodies as well as a demand for new designs that impose the least negative impact on the natural environment.

This book is design to help readers understand the principles and practices of industrial pollution prevention to ensure sustainable economic development. It also provides readers with forms, worksheet, and checklist.

This book combines the data and analyses of research with the perspective and interpretive commentary of the practitioner. Dr. Fusfeld provides the reader with a grasp of the dynamic nature of industrial research, the influences that shape it, and its role in society. Factors that shape current industrial research, including the internationalization of R&D, declining defense expenditures, and the corporate environment, are covered. The author describes the globalization of industrial operation and the current and future challenges that globalization will bring.

Provides a unique critical assessment of innovative chemical, oxidative, extraction, thermal, physical, and biomediation technologies. With emphasis on techniques that promise long-term solutions. Covers new directions in hazardous waste remediation, innovative approaches to on-site management selections, source control and preventive engineering.

This important volume will help you with the diagnosis of problems frequently arising in trace analysis by giving you background data, information, and working practices often omitted from technical reports. The authors place strong emphasis on the analysis of metals.
Throughout this essential on-the-job reference, you'll find highlighted areas that give you useful hints and tips on trace element determination. Howard and Statham do not concentrate on analytical procedures which may rapidly become obsolete-instead they help you with the underlying principles and philosophy behind method development so that you can push forward the frontiers of this exciting field.

This thorough overview explores the earth's energy resources, the environmental consequences of extracting and using them, and the current and future state of pollution control technology. Its breadth of coverage and authoritative analysis are beyond compare.

Step-by-step, this book takes you through the developing of a plan, choosing a planning team, setting up a Command Post, tactics and perimeter control, Mutual Aid, financial responsibilities, evacuation procedures, where and how to get situation information, training, conducting investigations, dealing with casualties, and returning personnel back to normal duties.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the underlying principles of solid state sensor devices that are so important in environmental monitoring. The volume places special emphasis on fabrication technology, performance of devices, areas of application, and integration/multiplexing trends in sensors. Included is detailed coverage of gas-sensitive solid state semiconductor sensors, photonic and photoacoustic gas sensors, and fiber optic sensors.

This important volume discusses the structure and growth of the plastics industry, comprehensively displaying the complete cycle of plastics from raw materials to waste and solutions related to this waste-presenting practical cost scenarios for the collection and disposal of waste. Features nearly 250 useful figures, tables, and equations.

Pollution Prevention focuses on current efforts to incorporate pollution prevention into the functions of state and local environmental agencies. It explains how to introduce pollution prevention methods into inspection programs, permitting procedures, enforcement actions, technical assistance, training, and voluntary initiatives. Topics covering the financing of pollution efforts prevention and factors contributing to their development are addressed. The book offers a wealth of practical information for state and government agency personnel, consultants, waste management personnel, and professionals in industry.

This book provides basic economic and accounting principles to sharpen the skills that both small and large businesses can use to evaluate and financially justify investment in pollution prevention.

This book includes tables analyzing priority pollutants, hazardous wastes, organic chemicals, National Ambient Air Quality Standards, PCBs, pesticides, herbicides, drinking water quality; VOCs and more!

This handy operations reference book contains no narrative copy, only hundreds of flow diagrams and data tables about processes and systems being used around the world.

Contents-Regulatory Mandates for Controls on Ground Water Monitoring. Ground Water Monitoring System Design. The Overall Philosophy and Purpose of Site Investigations. Remote Sensing and Geophysical Methods for Evaluation of Subsurface Conditions. Monitoring and Sampling in the Vadose Zone. Monitoring Well Drilling, Soil Sampling, Rock Coring, and Borehold Logging. Design and Installation of Ground Water Monitoring Wells. Monitoring Well Post-Installation Considerations. Acquisition and Interpretation of Water Level Data. Methods and Procedure for Defining Aquifer Parameters. Ground Water Sampling. Ground Water Sample Analysis. Organization and Analysis of Water Quality Data. Health and Safety Consideration in Ground Water Monitoring Investigations. Decontamination Program Design for Ground Water Investigations.

Federal, state and local laws require real estate buyers to be responsible for assuring a site is free of pollution prior to purchase. This book provides detailed survey questionnaires that can be used by prospective purchasers to gather information for evaluation.