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Supporting material for Fact Sheet FS-105-01 "MTBE and other volatile organic compounds--New findings and implications on the quality of source waters used for drinking-water supplies"

Assessment of Ambient Ground Water in the NAWQA Program

Squillace, P.J., Zogorski, J.S., Wilber, W.G., and Price, C.V., 1996, Preliminary assessment of the occurrence and possible sources of MTBE in groundwater in the United States, 1993-1994: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 30, no. 5, p. 1721-1730.

Moran, M.J., Zogorski, J.S., and Squillace, P.J., 1999, MTBE in ground water of the United States--Occurrence, potential sources, and long-range transport, in Water Resources conference, American Water Works Association, Norfolk, Va., Sept. 26-29 [Proceedings]: American Water Works Association, CD ROM.

Moran, M.J., Halde, M.J., Clawges, R.M., and Zogorski, J.S., 1999, Relations between the detection of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) in surface and ground water and its content in gasoline, in the American Chemical Society  preprints of papers, 219th, San Francisco, Calif.,  Mar. 26-31, 2000:  Cape Girardeau, Mo., ACS, v. 40, no. 1, p. 195-198. (pdf version), 7 p.

Assessment of Drinking Water in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions

Grady, S.J. and Casey, G.D., 1999, A plan for assessing the occurrence and distribution of methyl tert-butyl ether and other volatile organic compounds in drinking water and ambient ground water in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the United States:  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, OFR 99-207 (pdf version), 36 p.

Grady, S.J., and Casey, G.D., 2001, Occurrence and distribution of methyl tert-butyl ether and other volatile organic compounds in drinking water in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, 1993-98: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, WRIR 00-4228 (pdf version), 123 p.

Moran, Michael, and Grady, Stephen, 2001, Occurrence and distribution of volatile organic compounds in drinking water supplied by community water systems in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, 1993-98: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, FS-089-01, 4 p.

Assessment of Sources of Drinking Water (Prior to Treatment)

Delzer, G.C., Grady, S.J., Zogorski, J.S., Rowe, B.L., and Koch, Bart, 2001, National Survey of MTBE, other ether oxygenates, and other VOCs in community drinking-water sources, American Water Works Association meeting, Washington, D.C., June 2001. (pdf version)

Clawges, Rick, Rowe, Barbara, and Zogorski, John, 2001, National survey of MTBE and other VOCs in community drinking-water sources: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, FS-064-01, 4 p.

Ivahnenko, T., Grady, S.J., and Delzer, G.C., 2001, Design of a national survey of methyl tert-butyl ether and other volatile organic compounds in community drinking-water sources: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, OFR 01-271, 42 p.

Rowe, Barbara, Grady, Stephen, Zogorski, John, Koch, Bart, and Tratnyek, Paul, 2001, Initial findings: national survey of MTBE, other ether oxygenates, and other VOCs in community drinking-water sources: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, OFR 01-399.

Delzer, G.C., in press, A review of literature for methyl tert-butyl ether in sources of drinking water in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, OFR 01-322, 16 p.