Groundwater Protection in San Francisco Bay Area
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 111, Issue 4
Abstract
In the San Francisco Bay Region, the Regional Water Quality Control Board is now regulating approximately 140 sites where toxic chemicals have contaminated groundwater. Many of these were located through the Board's Underground Tank Leak Detection Program, which required subsurface investigations at sites with underground solvent tanks. New ordinances and state laws are expected to result in the discovery of hundreds more contamination sites in the next few years. The Regional Board is developing a ranking methodology to assign priorities among cases and a set of guidelines for establishment of clean‐up objectives on a site‐by‐site basis. Appropriate regulatory mechanisms have been selected to enforce the necessary investigation and cleanup activities.
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Eisenberg, D. M., and Olivieri, A. W., “Regional Board Consideration of Groundwater Contamination Cases,” Internal Staff Memo for Public Workshop on Groundwater Contamination, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Mar., 1984.
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Olivieri, A. W., Eisenberg, D. M., Kurtovich, M. R., and Pettegrew, L. A., “Underground Tank Leak Detection Program—San Francisco Bay Region,” California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Oct., 1983.
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Olivieri, A. W., Eisenberg, D. M., Kurtovich, M. R., and Pettegrew, L. A., “Groundwater Contamination From Underground Tanks in California's Silicon Valley,” presented at the May 29–31, 1984, ASCE Water Resources Planning & Management National Specialty Conference, held at Baltimore, Md.
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Olivieri, A. W., and Eisenberg, D. M., “A Methodology For Ranking Risk of Groundwater Contamination From Hazardous Materials Sites,” presented at the June 25–27, 1984, ASCE National Conference on Environmental Engineering, held at Los Angeles, Calif.
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Copyright © 1985 ASCE.
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Published online: Aug 1, 1985
Published in print: Aug 1985
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