1.2- Dibromoethane Florida

Recent field evidence indicates that the occurrence of these reaction products may be relatively common in hypoxic groundwaters which have been contaminated by bromoaliphatic compounds. Schwarzenbach et al. (1) reported the presence of a complex mixture of alkyl and chloroalkyl sulfides in a hypoxic groundwater polluted by a variety of bromo- and chloroaliphatic compounds. Ethanethiol (at a concentration of approximately 2 pM) was detected by Jackson et al. (5Q) in groundwater contaminated by a variety of chlorinated and brominated solvents beneath a municipal/industrial landfill. In addition, Watts and Brown (51 cited in 2) have reported the presence of ethanethiol, diethyl disulfide and triethyl disulfide in Florida groundwaters contaminated by 1,2-dibromoethane. 

Katz B. G. (1993) Biogeochemical and Hydrological Processes Controlling the Transport and Fate of 1,2-Dibromoethane (EDB) in Soil and Ground Water, Central Florida. US Geological Survey, Water-Supply Paper 2402, Tallahassee, Honda, 35p. 

Weintraub, R.A. Jex, G.W. Moye, H.A. "Degradation of 1,2-Dibromoethane in Florida Ground Water and Soil, American Chemical Society 189th National Meeting, PEST 110, Florida, 1985. 

Weintraub RA, Jex GW, Moye HA (1986). Chemical and microbial degradation of 1,2-dibromoethane (EDB) in Florida ground water, soil, and sludge. In Evaluation of Pesticides in Ground Water (eds. WY Garner, RC Honeycutt, HN Nigg). Washington, DC ... 

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