Petroleum Related Contamination — Oxygenated Gasoline — Laurel Bay, South Carolina

Baehr, A.L., Baker, R.J., and Lahvis, M.A., 1997,

Transport of MTBE across the water table to the unsaturated zone at a gasoline-spill site in Beaufort, S.C., in 213th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Proceedings, San Francisco, California, April 13-17, 1997: Washington, D.C., American Chemical Society, p. 417-418.

Baehr, A.L., Charles, E.G., and Baker, R.J., 2001,

Methyl tert-butyl ether degradation in the unsaturated zone and the relation between MTBE in the atmosphere and shallow groundwater: Water Resources Research, v. 37, no. 2, p. 223-233, 2000WR900292, doi:10.1029/2000WR900292.

Baehr, A.L., and Reilly, T.J., 2001,

Water quality and occurrence of methyl-tert butyl ether (MTBE) and other fuel related compounds in lakes and ground water at lakeside communities in Sussex and Morris Counties, New Jersey, 1998-1999: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4149, 86 p.

Baehr, A.L., and Zapecza, O.S., 1998,

Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and other volatile organic compounds in lakes in Byram Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, summer, 1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4264, 8 p.

Baker, R.J., Baehr, A.L., and Lahvis, M.A., 2000,

Estimation of hydrocarbon biodegradation rates in gasoline-contaminated sediment from measured respiration rates: Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, v. 41, no. 1-2, p. 175-192, doi:10.1016/S0169-7722(99)00063-7.

Baker, R.J., Best, E.W., and Baehr, A.L., 2002,

Used motor oil as a source of MTBE, TAME, and BTEX to ground water: Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, v. 22, no. 4, p. 46-51.

Bekins, B.A., Cozzarelli, I.M., and Curtis, G.P., 2005,

A simple method for calculating growth rates of petroleum hydrocarbon plumes: Ground Water, v. 0, no. 0, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.00093.x.

Bradley, P.M., 2000,

Microbial degradation of chloroethenes in groundwater systems: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 8, no. 1, p. 104-111.

Bradley, P.M., and Chapelle, F.H., 2002,

Microbial mineralization of ethene under sulfate-reducing conditions: Bioremediation Journal, v. 6, no. 1, p. 1-8.

Bradley, P.M., and Chapelle, F.H., 2000,

Acetogenic microbial degradation of vinyl chloride: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 34, no. 13, p. 2761-2763, doi:10.1021/es991371m.

Bradley, P.M., and Chapelle, F.H., 2000,

Aerobic microbial mineralization of dichloroethene as sole carbon substrate: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 34, no. 1, p. 221-223, doi:10.1021/es990785c.

Bradley, P.M., and Chapelle, F.H., 1999,

Response to comment on "Methane as a product of chloroethene biodegradation under methanogenic conditions": Environmental Science and Technology, v. 33, no. 13, p. 2304, doi:10.1021/es9920112.

Bradley, P.M., and Chapelle, F.H., 1999,

Role for acetoptrophic methanogens in methanogenic biodegradation of vinyl chloride: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 33, no. 19, p. 3473-3476, doi:10.1021/es990395q.

Bradley, P.M., Chapelle, F.H., and Landmeyer, J.E., 2006,

Effect of H2 and redox condition on biotic and abiotic MTBE transformation: Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, v. 26, no. 4, p. 74-81, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6592.2006.00119.x.

Bradley, P.M., Chapelle, F.H., and Landmeyer, J.E., 2001,

Methyl t-butyl ether mineralization in surface-water sediment microcosms under denitrifying conditions: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, v. 67, no. 4, p. 1975-1978, doi:10.1128/AEM.67.4.1975-1978.2001.

Bradley, P.M., and Landmeyer, J.E., 2006,

Low-temperature MTBE biodegradation in aquifer sediments with a history of low, seasonal ground water temperatures: Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, v. 26, no. 1, p. 101-105, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6592.2006.00075.x.

Bradley, P.M., Landmeyer, J.E., and Chapelle, F.H., 2002,

TBA biodegradation in surface-water sediments under aerobic and anaerobic conditions: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 36, no. 19, p. 4087-4090, doi:10.1021/es011480c.

Bradley, P.M., Landmeyer, J.E., and Chapelle, F.H., 2001,

Widespread potential for microbial MTBE degradation in surface-water sediments: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 35, no. 4, p. 658-662, doi:10.1021/es0015489.

Bradley, P.M., Landmeyer, J.E., and Chapelle, F.H., 1999,

Aerobic mineralization of MTBE and t-butanol by stream-bed-sediment microorganisms, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999--Volume 3 of 3--Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 87-92.

Bradley, P.M., Landmeyer, J.E., and Chapelle, F.H., 1999,

Aerobic mineralization of MTBE and tert-butyl alcohol by stream-bed sediment microorganisms: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 33, no. 11, p. 1877-1879, doi:10.1021/es990062t.

Brauner, J.S., and Widdowson, M.A., 1997,

Sequential electron acceptor model for evaluation of in situ bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants in groundwater, in Engineering Foundation Conference on Bioremediation, Palm Coast, Florida, January 21-26, 1996: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v. 829, p. 399-419.

Buxton, H.T., Landmeyer, J.E., Baehr, A.L., Church, C.D., and Tratnyek, P.G., 1997,

Interdisciplinary investigation of subsurface contaminant transport and fate at point-source releases of gasoline containing MTBE, in 1997 Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water: Prevention, Detection, and Remediation Conference, Proceedings, Houston, Tex., November 11-14, 1997: Westerville, Ohio, Ground Water Publishing Company, p. 2-16.

Chapelle, F.H., 2000,

The significance of microbial processes in hydrogeology and geochemistry: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 8, no. 1, p. 41-46, doi:10.1007/PL00010973.

Chapelle, F.H., 1999,

Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated ground water--The perspectives of history and hydrogeology: Ground Water, v. 37, no. 1, p. 122-132.

Chapelle, F.H., Bradley, P.M., Lovley, D.R., O'Neill, K., and Landmeyer, J.E., 2002,

Rapid evolution of redox processes in a petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated aquifer: Ground Water, v. 40, no. 4, p. 353-360, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2002.tb02513.x.

Chapelle, F.H., Landmeyer, J.E., and Bradley, P.M., 2002,

Identifying the distribution of terminal electron-accepting processes (TEAPS) in ground-water systems, in Workshop on Monitoring Oxidation-Reduction Processes for Ground-Water Restoration, Workshop Summary, Dallas, Texas, April 25-27, 2000: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA/600/R-02/002, p. 5-18.

Chapelle, F.H., Novak, J.T., Parker, J.C., Campbell, B.G., and Widdowson, M.A., 2007,

A framework for assessing the sustainability of monitored natural attenuation: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1303, 46 p.

Chapelle, F.H., O'Neill, K., Bradley, P.M., Methe, B.A., Ciufo, S.A., Knobel, L.L., and Lovley, D.R., 2002,

A hydrogen-based subsurface microbial community dominated by methanogens: Nature, v. 415, no. 6869, p. 312-315, doi:10.1038/415312a.

Chapelle, F.H., Robertson, J.F., Landmeyer, J.E., and Bradley, P.M., 2000,

Methodology for applying monitored natural attenuation to petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated ground-water systems with examples from South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4161, 47. A 3 1/2" disk is included p.

Chapelle, F.H., Widdowson, M.A., Brauner, J.S., Mendez, E., and Casey, C.C., 2003,

Methodology for estimating times of remediation associated with monitored natural attenuation: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4057, 51 p.

Church, C.D., Isabelle, L.M., Pankow, J.F., Rose, D.L., and Tratnyek, P.G., 1997,

Method for determination of methyl tert-butyl ether and its degradation products in water: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 31, no. 12, p. 3723-3726, doi:10.1021/es9705452.

Church, C.D., Isabelle, L.M., Pankow, J.F., Tratnyek, P.G., and Rose, D.L., 1997,

Assessing the in situ degradation of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) byproduct identification at the sub-ppb level using direct aqueous injection GC/MS, in 213th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Proceedings, San Francisco, Calif., April 13-17, 1997: Washington, D.C., American Chemical Society, p. 411-413.

Church, C.D., and Tratnyek, P.G., 2000,

Process level investigations of the in situ degradation of MTBE, in MTBE Biodegradation Workshop, Cincinatti, Ohio, February 1-3, 2000: Washington, D.C., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Church, C.D., Tratnyek, P.G., Pankow, J.F., Landmeyer, J.E., Baehr, A.L., Thomas, M.A., and Schirmer, M., 1999,

Effects of environmental conditions on MTBE degradation in model column aquifers, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999--Volume 3 of 3--Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 93-101.

Church, C.K., Pankow, J.F., and Tratnyek, P.G., 1999,

Hydrolosis of tert-butyl formate--Kinetics, products, and implications for the environmental impact of methyl tert-butyl ether: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, v. 18, no. 12, p. 2789-2796, doi:10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<2789:HOTBFK>2.3.CO;2.

Cozzarelli, I.M., and Baehr, A.L., 2003,

Volatile fuel hydrocarbons and MTBE in the environment (chapter 12), in Lollar, B.S., ed., Treatise on Geochemistry: Elsevier, v. 9 of 10 volumes, p. 433-474, ISBN:9780080437514.

Goode, D.J., 1999,

Simulating contaminant attenuation, double-porosity exchange, and water age in aquifers using MOC3D: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 086-99, 4 p.

Lahvis, M.A., and Baehr, A.L., 1999,

Transport of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and hydrocarbons to ground water from gasoline spills in the unsaturated zone, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999--Volume 3 of 3--Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 113-120.

Lahvis, M.A., and Baehr, A.L., 1998,

Simulating transport of volatile organic compounds in the unsaturated zone using the computer model R-UNSAT: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-019-98, 4 p.

Lahvis, M.A., Baehr, A.L., and Baker, R.J., 2004,

Evaluation of volatilization as a natural attenuation pathway for MTBE: Ground Water, v. 42, no. 2, p. 258-267, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2004.tb02672.x.

Lahvis, M.A., Baker, R.J., and Baehr, A.L., 1999,

Mass transport of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) across the water table and significance for natural-attenuation remediation at a gasoline spill site in Beaufort, South Carolina, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999--Volume 3 of 3--Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 75-85.

Lahvis, M.A., and Rehmann, L.C., 2000,

Simulation of transport of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) to groundwater from small volume releases of gasoline in the vadose zone: American Petroleum Institute Soil and Groundwater Research Bulletin 10, 8 p.

Lahvis, M.A., and Rehmann, L.C., 1999,

Simulation of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) transport to ground water from immobile sources of gasoline in the vadose zone, in Stanley, A., ed., Proceedings of the 2000 Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Remediation, Houston, Texas, November 17-19, 1999: Westerville, Ohio, National Ground Water Association, p. 247-259.

Landmeyer, J.E., 2001,

Monitoring the effect of poplar trees on petroleum-hydrocarbon and chlorinated-solvent contaminated ground water: International Journal of Phytoremediation, v. 3, no. 1, p. 61-85.

Landmeyer, J.E., and Bradley, P.M., 2003,

Effect of hydrologic and geochemical conditions on oxygen-enhanced bioremediation in a gasoline-contaminated aquifer: Bioremediation Journal, v. 7, no. 3-4, p. 165-177.

Landmeyer, J.E., Bradley, P.M., and Bullen, T.D., 2003,

Stable lead isotopes reveal a natural source of high lead concentrations to gasoline-contaminated groundwater: Environmental Geology, v. 45, no. 1, p. 12-22, doi:10.1007/s00254-003-0863-5.

Landmeyer, J.E., Bradley, P.M., and Chapelle, F.H., 1999,

Fate of MTBE relative to benzene in a gasoline-contaminated aquifer (1993-98), in Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999--Volume 3 of 3--Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 59-74.

Landmeyer, J.E., Chapelle, F.H., and Bradley, P.M., 2000,

Microbial H2 cycling does not affect ?2H values of ground water: Ground Water, v. 38, no. 3, p. 376-380.

Landmeyer, J.E., Chapelle, F.H., and Bradley, P.M., 1996,

Assessment of intrinsic bioremediation of gasoline contamination in the shallow aquifer, Laurel Bay Exchange, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4026, 50 p.

Landmeyer, J.E., Chapelle, F.H., Bradley, P.M., Pankow, J.F., Church, C.D., and Tratnyek, P.G., 1998,

Fate of MTBE relative to benzene in a gasoline-contaminated aquifer (1993-98): Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, v. 18, no. 4, p. 93-102.

Landmeyer, J.E., Chapelle, F.H., Herlong, H.H., and Bradley, P.M., 2001,

Methyl tert-butyl ether biodegradation by indigenous aquifer microorganisms under natural and artificial oxic conditions: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 35, no. 6, p. 1118-1126, doi:10.1021/es0013879.

Landmeyer, J.E., Pankow, J.F., and Church, C.D., 1997,

Occurrence of MTBE and tert-butyl alcohol in a gasoline-contaminated aquifer, in 213th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Proceedings, San Francisco, Calif., April 13-17, 1997: Washington, D.C., American Chemical Society, p. 413-415.

Landmeyer, J.E., Vroblesky, D.A., and Bradley, P.M., 2000,

MTBE and BTEX in trees above gasoline-contaminated ground water, in Wichramanayake, G.B., Gavaskar, A.R., Gibbs, J.T., and Means, J.L., eds., Case Studies in the Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds--Second International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, Calif., May 22-25, 2000: Columbus, Ohio, Battelle Press, p. 17-24 (Contact The Conference Group Inc. for information on the availability of the proceedings.).

Pankow, J.F., Luo, W., Isabelle, L.M., Bender, D.A., and Baker, R.J., 1998,

Determination of a wide range of volatile organic compounds in ambient air using multisorbent adsorption/thermal desorption and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry: Analytical Chemistry, v. 70, no. 24, p. 5213-5221, doi:10.1021/ac980481t.

Pankow, J.F., Thomson, N.R., Johnson, R.L., Baehr, A.L., and Zogorski, J.S., 1997,

The urban atmosphere as a non-point source for the transport of MTBE and other volatile organic compounds (VOC's) to shallow groundwater: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 31, no. 10, p. 2821-2828, doi:10.1021/es970040b.

Waddill, D.W., 1998,

Three-dimensional modeling of solute transport with in situ bioremediation based on sequential electron acceptors: Blacksburg, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 190 p.

Waddill, D.W., and Widdowson, M.A., 1997,

SEAM3D: A numerical model for three-dimensional solute transport and sequential electron acceptor-based bioremediation in groundwater: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Final Technical Report, prepared for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 336-344 p.

Zapecza, O.S., and Baehr, A.L., 1999,

Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) in lakes in Byram Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, 1998 and vulnerability of ground water in lakeside communities, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999--Volume 2 of 3--Contamination of Hydrologic Systems and Related Ecosystems: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018B, p. 405-413.

Zogorski, J.S., Delzer, G.C., Bender, D.A., Squillace, P.J., Lopes, T.J., Baehr, A.L., Stackelberg, P.E., Landmeyer, J.E., Boughton, C.J., Lico, M.S., Pankow, J.F., Johnson, R.L., and Thomson, N.R., 1998,

MTBE--Summary of findings and research by the U.S. Geological Survey, in Annual Conference on Water Quality, American Water Works Association Meeting, Dallas, Texas, June 21-25, 1998: Denver, Colo., American Water Works Association, v. D, p. 287-309.

Zogorski, J.S., Morduchowitz, A., Baehr, A.L., Bauman, B.J., Conrad, D.L., Drew, R.T., Korte, N.E., Lapham, W.W., Pankow, J.F., and Washington, E.R., 1996,

Fuel oxygenates and water quality: A summary of current understanding of sources, occurrence in natural waters, environmental behavior, fate, and significanceNational Science and Technology Council-Committe on Environment and Natural Resources, 37 p.

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