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Written by an expert team of scientists, engineers, and toxicologists, MTBE: Effects on Soil and Ground-Water Resources provides complete in-depth coverage of the assessment and potential remediation strategies of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). In addition to a history and overview of fuel oxygenates and MTBE, the book contains the latest information on:

• Physical and chemical properties
  
• Toxicity and health effects
  
• Taste and odor thresholds
  
• Transport and fate in the environment
  
• Detection and treatment in soil and groundwater
  
• Environmental policy
  Get rapid access to the precise data you need with:
  
• Dozens of tables and diagrams
  
• Safety data sheets
  
• State-by-state clean-up standards
  
• Useful web sites
  
• Geological principles
  
• Subsurface investigation tools
  
• Synthesis, properties, and environmental breakdown products
  
• Plume geometries
  
• Remediation strategies
  
• Toxicity and human health risk calculations
  
• Extensive conversion tables
  MTBE: Effects on Soil and Ground-Water Resources examines and clarifies every issue in the national debate on this controversial environmental problem.