Leaded-gasoline additives still contaminate groundwater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2005, Pages

  Falta, Ronald W ^a   Bulsara, Nimeesha ^a,b   Henderson, James K ^a   Mayer, Richard A ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Clemson University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CONTAMINATION; ETHERS; GASOLINE; LEAD; TOXIC MATERIALS;

1,2-DICHLOROETHANE; GASOLIN ADDITIVES; LEADED-GASOLIN ADDITIVES; METHYL TERT-BUTYL ETHER;

GROUNDWATER;

1,2 DIBROMOETHANE; 1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; CARCINOGEN; DRUG ADDITIVE; GASOLINE; GROUND WATER; LEAD; LEADED GASOLINE; LEADED GASOLINE ADDITIVE; OCTANOL; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; FRESH WATER; PETROLEUM; TETRAETHYLLEAD;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MTBE;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HISTORY; OCTANOL WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; CHEMISTRY; EXHAUST GAS; FACTUAL DATABASE; MOTOR VEHICLE; TIME; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE; ETHYLENE DICHLORIDES; FRESH WATER; GASOLINE; LEAD; MOTOR VEHICLES; OCTANOLS; PETROLEUM; TETRAETHYL LEAD; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 25144513518     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es053352k     Document Type: Review

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