Manufactured Gas Plant Remediation: A Case Study

✍ Scribed by Allen W. Hatheway, Thomas B. Speight

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1085
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The assessment, remediation, and redevelopment of manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites pose a significant technical and financial challenge to successor property owners, including municipalities and other public entities undertaking brownfields revitalization, and to their consulting environmental engineers. Due to the toxicity of many coal tar constituents, sites contaminated as a result of gasworks operations pose a significant threat to public health. This book will discuss the history of the manufactured gas industry in Massachusetts (the largest in the US), as well as the toxicity of gasworks waste products, technical challenges in the cleanup process, and the process for site cleanups.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction. Gas & Gasmaking in Massachusetts. The Historic Gas Industry in Massachusetts. Manufactured Gas in Boston. Gaswork Influences on Geology, Topography, and Made Land. Gas Manufacturing Processes Employed at Boston. Establishment of Boston's Individual Gas Companies. Important Gas Industry Considerations for Boston. Character & Regulation of Manufactured Gas Companies of Massachusetts. Character of Manufactured Gas Companies of Massachusetts. Historic Regulation of the Massachusetts Gas Industry. Considerations. Important Historical Considerations for Massachusetts Gasworks Remediation. Gaswork Byproducts, Their Original Uses, and Their Environmental Legacy. Historic Critical-to-Meaningful Site Remediation Information Sources for Massachusetts. Governmentally-Driven Remediation of Gasworks and Other Coal-Tar Site in Massachusetts. Considerations for Conduct of Gasworks & Coal-Tar Remediation in Massachusetts. Historic Patterns of Gaswork Wastes and Pollution in Massachusetts. Historic State Efforts Toward Mitigation of Gasworks Stream Pollution in Massachusetts. Present-Day Massachusetts Gasworks Environmental Hazards. Historic State Regulation of Manufactured Gas in Massachusetts. Present-Day Coal-Tar Remediation in Massachusetts. Present-Day Coal-Tar Remediation at Boston. Situational "Lessons Learned" at Boston. Litigation as a Window into Massachusetts Gas-Industry Toxics. Locating Today's Coal-Tar Sites Around Boston. Conclusions and Summary. Conclusions and Summary. Appendices. Index.