Do large-scale remedial and dredging events have the potential to release significant amounts of semivolatile compounds to the atmosphere?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 47-49

  Chiarenzelli, Jeff ^a   Scrudato, Ronald ^a   Bush, Brian ^b   Carpenter, David ^b   Bushart, Sean ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Dredging; Ortho substituted congeners; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Semivolatile compounds; Volatilization

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; VOLATILE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVAPORATION; HEALTH HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0031889882     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9810647     Document Type: Article

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