Risk-based BTEX screening criteria for a groundwater irrigation scenario

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 699-722

  Waiden, Terry ^a,c   Spence, Lynn ^b  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Spence Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^c Les Quatre Bras   (Belgium)

Author keywords

BTEX; Groundwater; Irrigation; Risk; Vegetable ingestion

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944447876     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039709383722     Document Type: Article

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