Underground Storage Tanks

Contaminants of Concern

• "A Hot Dog by Any Other Name Could Be Your Drinking Water" (PDF) (8 pp, 615K, About PDF) (article by Pat Ellis, DNREC, appearing in LUSTLine, Bulletin #44, July 2003, pp.1-6.)
• MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether)
• Fuel Oxygenates (other than MTBE)
• Lead Scavengers (EDB and 1,2-DCA)
• TPH Working Group Series (NOTE: this 5-volume series on TPH was produced by AEHS the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences--formerly the Association for the Environmental Health of Soils.)
• Individual Sample Fuel Mixture Composition Data (NOTE: this is from Volume 2, Appendix 1 of the TPH series listed above. Not every constituent of each fuel samples is listed.)
• Hazardous Substances (40 CFR 302)

Cleanup Levels and other Regulatory Standards

• Survey of State Soil and Groundwater Action/Cleanup Levels
  (provided by AEHS.)
  
• Map of MTBE Groundwater Clean-up Levels for LUST Sites: Current and Future
  (This map shows current groundwater regulations (established or site-specific), forthcoming regulations, and states waiting for MCL/Health Advisory. (Map courtesy of Michael Martinson, Delta Environmental Consultants, Inc.))
  
• Drinking Water Standards Program (Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water)
  
• EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics - Chemical Testing and Information Home Page
  • Master Testing List
  • Addtions to the Master Testing List - Categories
  
  
• Right to Know Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets
  (provided by the New Jersey Department of Health)

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