Setting cleanup targets in a probabilistic assessment

Groundwater Quality Modeling and Management Under Uncertinity

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 23-33

  Tucker, W Troy ^a   Myers, David S ^a   Ferson, Scott ^a  

^a APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH RISKS; IMPURITIES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION; MULTIPLE RECEPTORS; RISK EQUATION;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0242468352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40696(2003)3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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