National Water Quality Monitoring Council

A. Y. Cantillo, G. G. Lauenstein, Performance-based quality assurance - the NOAA National Status and Trends Program experience. Proceedings of the National Water-Quality Monitoring Council National Conference, Reno, NV. July 7-9, 1998, III-63 - III-73. 

Composite data from the Comprehensive Emergency Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) monitoring program indicate that benzene was detected at a frequency of 11.2% in groundwater in the vicinity of 178 inactive hazardous waste disposal sites (Plumb 1987). Data from a 1980 national survey by the Council on Environmental Quality on groundwater and surface water contamination showed benzene concentrations in contaminated drinking water wells in New York, New... 

Directive) during the next review of the Annex but that, in the meantime, toluene should be considered as a relevant List II substance in Council Directive 76/464/EEC 35 on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community, thus requiring the establishment of national quality objectives, monitoring and eventual reduction measures, as to ensure that concentrations in surface water systems do not exceed the quality objective" [85]. 

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