Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, Volume I and II

456 HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT degrade contaminants. Some limitations may include inappro- priate site hydrogeologic characteris ...

HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT 457 Air Sparging Air sparging is the further development of soil vapor extraction, wherein that proce ...

458 HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT potentially cutting treatment costs and time frames by 30 to 50%. Thermal technologies The EPA h ...

459 HAZARDOUS WASTES A hazardous waste is a solid waste than may (1) cause or significantly contribute to an increase in serious ...

460 HAZARDOUS WASTES Hazardous-Waste Characteristics A waste that falls into one of the lists must still be examined to determin ...

HAZARDOUS WASTES 461 TABLE 1 Toxicity-characteristic waste The D List If your waste contains one or more of these contaminants a ...

462 HAZARDOUS WASTES Reauthorization Act (SARA) on October 17, 1986, creating a hazardous-waste-site response program and liabil ...

HAZARDOUS WASTES 463 the Office of Technology Assessment of the Congress of the United States (Table 2). Determining the probabi ...

464 HAZARDOUS WASTES the topography of the land and its uses. The behavior patterns of the individual—that is, the time and plac ...

465 HYDROLOGY THE PURPOSES OF HYDROLOGICAL STUDIES Hydrology is concerned with all phases of the transport of water between the ...

466 HYDROLOGY often this basic question of dependence or independence is not discussed until after many primary statistical meas ...

HYDROLOGY 467 relationship between rain intensity (inches per hour) with both duration and area. In general terms, the longer th ...

468 HYDROLOGY has been greatly reduced, perhaps almost to the point where hygroscopic moisture alone remains. When rain fi rst s ...

HYDROLOGY 469 channels: this process is termed interfl ow and is much debated because it is so diffi cult to measure. At very hi ...

470 HYDROLOGY e
vapor pressure for 6 hr period h
station elevation (feet) D
melt in inches per 6 hr period The U.S. Corps ...

HYDROLOGY 471 for two hours. This effective precipitation will appear some time later in the stream system, but will now be spre ...

472 HYDROLOGY Expanding Eq. (2) for a particular value of R, QuPuP uP() ()() ()() 10
 10 1 9 2 .()() (^110) (4) The whole fa ...

HYDROLOGY 473 MULTIPLE REGRESSION AND STREAMFLOW The similarity of the fi nite difference unit hydrograph approach to multiple r ...

474 HYDROLOGY From a logical point of view, it is probably easier to develop the routing relationship by considering storage, or ...

HYDROLOGY 475 Channel routing is also based on continuity, Eq. (11). Before it can be utilized this equation must be rewritten i ...