Grantee Research Project Results

Beyond MTBE: Evaluating the Future Threats to Drinking Water Supplies from Chemicals in Our Gasoline

EPA Grant Number: R829023
Title: Beyond MTBE: Evaluating the Future Threats to Drinking Water Supplies from Chemicals in Our Gasoline
Investigators: Gschwend, Philip M.
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EPA Project Officer: Packard, Benjamin H
Project Period: September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2004 (Extended to August 31, 2005)
Project Amount: $239,524
RFA: Exploratory Research to Anticipate Future Environmental Issues (2000) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Aquatic Ecosystems , Ecological Indicators/Assessment/Restoration , Environmental Justice , Water

Description:

The objective of this research project is to develop a methodology suited to evaluating the potential for new (and old) fuel additives to contaminate drinking water.

Publications and Presentations:

Publications have been submitted on this project: View all 4 publications for this project

Journal Articles:

Journal Articles have been submitted on this project: View all 3 journal articles for this project

Supplemental Keywords:

MTBE, BTEX, screening model, community supply well, gasoline additive, subsurface transport, partition coefficient, environmental fate and transport, hazardous chemicals, subsurface water contamination, analytical models., RFA, Scientific Discipline, Ecosystem Protection/Environmental Exposure & Risk, Water, Toxics, Ecological Risk Assessment, Chemistry, Contaminant Candidate List, Environmental Chemistry, Ecosystem/Assessment/Indicators, Engineering, Chemistry, & Physics, Ecological Effects - Environmental Exposure & Risk, Ecological Effects - Human Health, Drinking Water, Environmental Engineering, gasoline, linear solvation energy relationship, Safe Drinking Water, treatment, water quality, MTBE, treatment plants, chemical contaminants, contaminant removal, water treatment, fate and transport, drinking water contaminants, groundwater, exposure, ecological exposure, human health effects, fuel additives, surface water, alternative disinfection methods, exposure and effects

Progress and Final Reports:

The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.