Monitoring of soil and groundwater contamination following a pipeline explosion and petroleum product spillage in Ijegun, Lagos Nigeria

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4159-4170

  Doherty, Victoria Funmilayo ^a   Otitoloju, Adebayo Akeem ^b  

^a Yaba College of Technology   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Contamination; Groundwater; Petroleum products; Pipeline; Soil

Indexed keywords

BENZENE , TOLUENE , ETHYLBENZENE , AND XYLENES; ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATION; PIPELINE EXPLOSION; RESIDUAL CONCENTRATIONS; TOTAL HYDROCARBONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BENZENE; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; PIPELINES; SOILS; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

SOIL POLLUTION;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; GROUND WATER; HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

BTEX; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; OIL PIPELINE; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; REMEDIATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; EXPLOSION; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NIGERIA; OIL SPILL; PIPELINE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

LAGOS [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPLOSIONS; GROUNDWATER; NIGERIA; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878345514     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2858-8     Document Type: Article

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