Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Features: helps you understand and use the key information essential to successful environmental remediation; allows you to readily apply the text examples to different but similar problems; provides a convenient one-book collection of data usually found scattered throughout the literature; includes lists containing "rules of thumb" to supply methods for making quick estimates; contains a dictionary of water quality parameters and pollutants; and illustrates concepts with worked-out examples and case histories."--Jacket.