A Guide To Underground Storage Tanks

This reference has been assembled to help professionals assess the problems surrounding underground storage tank use, replacement, and remediation. In it, the author explores techniques for avoiding the risks posed to health and the environment from all types of liquids. A useful on-the-job reference for engineers, technicians, scientists, and contractors.

This timely book provides a concise, yet complete guide to the installation of UST systems. It addresses the EPA requirements for UST systems and offers practical, step-by-step suggestions for all aspects of installation, including management practices and the removal and closure of old systems. This information, as well as the book's excellent illustrations and appendices, make it an important complimentary guide to specific UST manufacturer's training and installation manuals.

This practical guide to regulatory compliance and good management practice addresses key issues in UST management. The author offers recommendations for developing and maintaining UST management programs that not only minimize the risk of a release but also reduce the potential for costly repercussions. This 5th Edition contains five new chapters that address updates to the EPA's approval of state regulatory and trust fund programs, soil sampling and analytical guidelines, the evolution of tank testing strategies, National Fire Protection Pamphlet 329, new state-of-the-art technology, and SPCC plans. Chapters cover regulatory highlights, inventory control, leak prediction, tank closure, testing, monitoring and release detection, tank design, secondary containment, installation, maintenance and retrofit, storing hazardous substances, remedial action, and more.

This new book presents state-of-the-art for treating groundwater contaminated with Petroleum Hydrocarbons, based on CDM's vast experience in treating contaminated groundwater using air stripping, GAC and biorestoration. Design issues and pitfalls to avoid when implementing treatment technologies are explained. Capital costs, operation and maintenance costs, unit costs are presented. Groundwater Remediation and Petroleum is the most comprehensive examination of these technologies and the implications of recent UST regulations. It provides hands-on information in the form of detailed step-by-step design procedures and case studies.

Issues in Underground Storage Tank Management presents a comprehensive description of the many complex facets of hazardous waste management, tank closure, and site assessment. It is also the only book to cover financial assurance of UST remediation. Part I discusses UST closure including regulation, closure techniques, site assessment methods and data interpretation, waste disposal, contracting, and health and safety. The book's site assessment section covers such issues as field screening, analytical techniques, sample collection, and equipment decontamination. Part 2 covers financial assurance addressing UST financial responsibility, EPA financial responsibility regulations, use of insurance, use of state funds, and litigation and common law. Non-technical language is used throughout the book to present information in an easy-to-understand, readable fashion. Issues in Underground Storage Tank Management is an essential guide for UST owners, facility managers, environmental and hazardous waste consultants, federal and state environmental regulatory personnel, groundwater professionals, pollution engineers. It also has useful information for anyone involved in petroleum contamination assessment.