Environmental Engineering FOURTH EDITION

Index 477

siting, 9,26

sludge, 228-229

solid waste, 259

Indicator organisms, 100

Industrial waste

biological oxygen demand, 88

clearinghouse, 302

laws, 341

wastewater, 153, 167

Infiltration, 107,153-154,167,243,

245-248,251,295,309,310,344

Inflow, 153-154

Intensity

light, 92,97-98, 103,377,379

precipitation, 107,235,237

sound, 425426,434

Interaction matrix technique, 16,18

Intercepting sewers, 156

Interception, 14 1-143

Intennittent noise, 434

Inversions, 303,356-361,364,371,443

Iodometric titration, 82

Ion exchange, 99,298-299,33 1

Ionization chamber, 320-321

Ionizing radiation, 297,3 13-314,

316318,332

somatic and genetic effects of, 321-326

units for measuring, 3 18-321

Irrigation water, 241-242

Jet pump, 129

Jigs, 286

Kinematic viscosity, 12 I

Lakes
effect of pollution on. See also Water
pollution, 4,52-54,7&73,76, 197,
236,297,342
oxygen, 57,82
temperature, 70-7 1
Land application, 97,229-230
Land cover
runoff, 237,240
Landfarming, 299
Landfills
closure and ultimate use of, 268-270
design, 265-266
gas, 266-268

hazardous waste, 308-310

operation, 266-268

subsidence, 264-265

volume reduction, 269-270

Lapse rate. See also Adiabatic lapse rate,

Ambient lapse rate, 357-362

Latency period, 40-42

Latent cancer fatalities, 42,44

Law

air pollution, 411-422

common, 341,411413,421

hazardous waste, 75,341-350

implementation problems, 420-421

noise, 436437

property, 411-413

solid waste, 341-350

statutory, 411,413418,421

tort, 411-412

L€50,40,297

LD50,40,297,308

Leachates, 251,265-268,309-310,325,

Lead, 39,266,316-317,331

334,342,344

air pollution, 385,40546,414,

water pollution, 76,135

222,402

417418

Lime, 94,198,206,210-211,213-214,

Limiting nutrient, 72

Limnology, 70

Linear energy transfer (LET),

319,322,324

Linear non-threshold theory, 323-325

Liquid scintillation counters, 304,332

Litter control, 245,251-252,261

Loading functions

Loading, and activated sludge systems,

Looping plume, 359-360

Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act

Lowest achievable emission rate (LAER),

LULUs (locally undesirable land uses),

sedimentation, 236-241

184-195

of 1980,336-337

418

9,303

Magnetic field, 313,316

Magnetic separation, 273,286-287,290