Underground Storage Tank: A tank and any underground piping connected to the tank that has 10% or more of its volume (including pipe volume) beneath the surface of the ground.
Underground storage tank: A tank located all or partially underground that is designed to hold gasoline or other petroleum products or chemical solutions.
Underground Storage Tank (UST): a tank system, including its piping, that has at least 10% of its volume underground ...
Underground Storage Tank (UST): Refers to tanks used to store gasoline underground. For more information, please go to the underground storage tank website.
Underground Storage Tank (UST): Any one or combination of tanks (including underground pipes, ancillary equipment and cathodic protection connected thereto) used to contain an accumulation of regulated substances, ...
An underground storage tank for wastes from homes not connected to a sewer line. Waste goes directly from the home to the tank. (See septic system.)
Source: Terms of the Environment
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An underground storage tank for wastes from homes not connected to a sewer line. Waste goes directly from the home to the tank.
Settleable solids ...
UST Underground storage tanks.
V-3 See: PVC.
VOLUME REDUCTION Processing waste materials to decrease the amount of space the materials occupy. It is accomplished by mechanical, thermal or biological means.
UST'S. Underground storage tanks.
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variable costs. Input costs that change as the nature of the production activity of its circumstances change; for example, as production levels vary.
septic tank An underground storage tank providing some primary treatment for wastes from homes not connected to a collection system sewer line. Waste goes directly from the home to the tank (on-site system).
Associated with the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Program, it describes the appropriate corrective measures to be implemented at a site. Equivalent to a CERCLA Feasibility Study (FS).
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The Earth's soil is becoming contaminated by pollutants through underground storage tanks, the application of pesticides and the leaching of waste from landfills into the ground.
Point Source Contamination: water contamination from specific sources such as leaking underground storage tanks, landfills, industrial waste discharge points, or chemical mixing sites.
Interstitial Monitoring- The continuous surveillance of the space between the walls of an underground storage tank.
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Underground Storage Tank Acronyms and Glossary ...
Examples would be things like well blowouts, pipeline breaks, ship collisions or groundings, overfilling of gas tanks and bilge pumping from ships, leaking underground storage tanks, ...
The continuous surveillance of the space between the walls of an underground storage tank.
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A layer of warm air that prevents the rise of cooling air and traps pollutants beneath it; can cause an air pollution episode.
usually in aquifers, which supply wells and springs. Because ground water is a major source of drinking water, there is growing concern over contamination from leaching agricultural or industrial pollutants or leaking underground storage tanks.
that amended RCRA and which, among other things, included minimal technical requirements for land disposal facilities and specified standards for the issuance of permits, penalties for violating the law, and controls on underground storage tanks.
unsaturated zone The area between the land surface and water table in which pore spaces are not completely filled with water. Also known as the vadose zone. Compare saturated zone. UST Underground storage tank.
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