MTBE; to what extent will past releases contaminate community water supply wells?

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Article about the increasing frequency of detection of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) in both ground- and surface waters, and the attention this issue is receiving from the media, environmental scientists, state environmental agencies, and federal agencies.

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The complicated challenges of MTBE cleanups

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The occurences of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) plumes is increasing in groundwater. Municipal water wells can be contaminated depending on the way in which an MTBE plume responds to altered pumping rates. The article discusses contaminated at specific water wells in the U.S.

Water Supply and Irrigation Systems, Water supply, Water Wells, Water, Underground, Groundwater, Contamination, Wells

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MTBE health assessment may loosen California's drinking water standard

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California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessments (OEHHA) received two reports about methyl tert-buty ether (MTBE). The gasoline additive has previously been linked to cancer and birth defects. However, those preliminary findings have been refuted in these two reports. As such, the OEHHA might change the current maximum acceptable levels of MTBE in drinking water. The present legal level is 35 ppb, and OEHHA has proposed lowering the level to 14 ppb. At 15 ppb. drinking water tastes and smells like turpentine. Some critics are pushing for levels as low as 5 ppb.

Science & research, Waste Management and Remediation Services, Water Pollution, Gasoline Additives, Prevention, Risk factors

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