Groundwater monitoring - ACS Publications - American Chemical

inadequate systems; 15% had no groundwater monitoring ... Accounting. Office audit of 58 commercial facilities {some .... beinvestigated. Thepotential...
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Groundwater monitoring using rapia~ydeveloping technology and methods. To fac& comnliance in f i i v e a ~1986.

are even higher for largewale operations. resou~ces Congressional hearings also have fctechnical cused mention on groundwater-sup-

rather than meet the November RCRA

deadlitte. Case studies have been developed by EPA criticsto illustrate the diffieulties and counterproductive situations that have occurred as facility owners and operators attempt to corn-‘%9938~85109150485$01.50m

tions typically cost hetween $25,000 and $250,000. Chemical analysis using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (which EPA favors for priority pollutants and which can he used for detecting other unknown -h-+=%s)

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