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Delineation and remediation of subsurface contamination have become a major focus of environmental science during the past five years. Conventional technologies available for subsurface investigations (e.g. monitoring wells) always will be required to confirm and monitor subsurface contamination; however, quicker and less expensive techniques are useful for preliminary site evaluations. Soil-gas surveying is a technique that is applicable to a wide range of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other contaminants under a variety of geologic and hydrologic settings. This paper presents the results of the use of soil-gas surveys for evaluation of the magnitude and lateral extent of a BTEX contamination at a former gas plant in Southwest Germany.
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Eiswirth, M., Hötzl, H., Reichert, B., Weber, K. (1997). Field Soil Gas Screening Methods for the Delineation of Subsurface Contamination. In: Gottlieb, J., Hötzl, H., Huck, K., Niessner, R. (eds) Field Screening Europe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1473-5_6
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