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Until Bulletin 46, only the cover stories of LUSTLine were accessible online. To obtain printed versions of entire back issues, please contact NEIWPCC at 978-323-7929. To locate specific articles, consult the LUSTLine Index, available on this site.
- #64/March 2010
Cover Story: Transition: What’s in Store for Tanks and Tank Programs Over the Next Decade – Part 1. Other articles include, LUST Recovery Act: Cleanups That Are Making a Difference, If I Had To Choose Just One Way of Achieving UST Operational Compliance…, and Observations on Cathodic-Protection Operation and Testing. - #63/December 2009
Cover Story: United We Stand… Divided We Fizzle: How Geographic Corridors and Petroleum Brownfields Can Be a Symbolic Force. Other articles include, The Perfect Marriage, a Messy Divorce, or Badly in Need of Counseling?, What Minnesota Is Learning About Denatured Ethanol, E85 Releases, and Methane Gas, and The Top 10 LNAPL Myths. - #62/August 2009
Cover Story: How Can Tank Programs Get on the Ball with Sustainability. Other articles include, The Transient Behavior of Water in Ethanol-Blended Fuels — Implications for Leak Detection, What If Methanol…?, Biodiesel: A Multimedia Evaluation Case Study, and Another Spill-Prevention Device! - #61/May 2009
Cover Story: When Reality Gets in the Way of Good Intentions – UST/LUST Stakeholders Weigh In on Biofuels. Other articles include, The Tangled Web of New-Fuel Mandates, MtBE? Never Again! California’s Multimedia Review Process for New Motor-Vehicle Fuels, Anticipating Environmental Impacts of Future Fuels, and New-Fuel Challenges for Petroleum Marketers. - #60/February 2009
Cover Story: A Criminal Before Breakfast: For Many Petroleum Marketers, It’s Just Plain Hard to Keep Up. Other articles include, Sustainable Remediation at the MA Military Reservation, EPA Report Provides Needed Information on Natural Attenuation of EDB and 1,2-DCA at Motor Fuel Release Sites Plus Implications for Risk Management, and A Primer for the Next Generation of Tank People: Part 1 – Tank and Pipe Technology. - #59/November 2008
Cover Story: Where Compassion and LUST Remediation Meet. Other articles include, Hiding in Plain Sight, Green Energy Gateway Fuel Station – Lawrence, KS, UST Rules for a New Century, and Reducing the LUST Backlog. - #58/September 2008
Cover Story: Will Groundwater Ever Get Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T? Why Underground Storage Tanks Matter. Other articles include, GWPC’s Clarion Call for Groundwater, Operator Training: The Oregon Experien, and Parting Thoughts from a Veteran Tank Regulator. - #57/November 2007
Cover Story: It’s Always Something! That Element of Surprise in Analyzing for Gasoline Compounds. Other articles include, TBA, Go Away! and What About 1,2-DCA? - #56/August 2007
Cover Story: The Trouble with Truck Stops (and Other High-Throughput Fueling Facilities Other articles include, Florida’s Leak Autopsy Study, Results of NEIWPCC’s 2006 Study of State Tank Programs, and Impact of Ethanol on Natural Attenuation of BTEX and MtBE. - #55/June 2007
Cover Story: “Look, A “Green” Fueling Station! The Future is Here...at a Former Eugene,Oregon,Brownfield Site” Other articles include, “What’s in Your Gasoline” and “Navajo Nation Bioremediation” - #54/February 2007
Cover Story: “A Marriage Made in Groundwater: How State UST, LUST, and Source Water Programs Can Work Together to Protect Drinking Water” Other articles include, “USTs and LUSTs of Biodiesel,” and “Are Vapor Leaks Still Relevant?” - #53/September 2006
Cover Story: “What Goes Around Comes Around… Arizona’s Route 66 Initiative Tackles Forgotten Gas Stations on a Highway of History” Other articles include, “Colorado’s Historic Byways Revitalization Initiative,” “Are We to Become “Children of the Corn” ?,” and “Beware the Unintended Consequences of Manifolding.” - #52/May 2006
Cover Story: “So What About Those E10 and E85 Fuels?” Other articles include, “Is Your UST System Ethanol Compatible?,” “What a Tank Operator Needs to Know,” and “Subsurface Vapor Attenuation- Update on Risk Pathway.” - #51/December 2005
Cover Story: “Tanks in the Wake: A Postmortem of Katrina, Rita, Wilma.” Other articles include, “Who’s on First—Energy Policy Act,” “LUST and Fuel Harmony,” and “Case for Multicomponent Analysis of Gasoline.” Additional online-only supplements to this issue are available. - #50/August 2005 20th Anniversary Issue
Cover Story: “We Hope LUSTLine Will Be Useful…” (a look at how far the publication—and tanks programs—have come since NEIWPCC published issue #1 in 1985). Other articles include, “California’s Designated UST Operator Program,” “Tanks on Tribal Lands,” and “EDB at South Carolina LUST Sites.” - #49/March 2005
Cover Story: “Environmental Forensics: Chemical Fingerprinting Gasoline and Diesel Fuel at LUST Sites.” Other articles include, “Age-Dating Releases at LUST Sites: Part 2-Case Studies,” “Vapor Attenuation in Petroleum Hydrocarbon Sources,” and “Maryland's MtBE Journey.” - #48/November 2004
Cover Story: 20 Years of LUST Busting: The Changes, the Joys, the Frustrations. the Future? Other articles include, “Age-Dating Releases at LUST Sites: Part 1-Lead Fingerprints,” “Collecting Reliable Soil-Gas Data-Vapor Intrusion FAQs,” and “Spill Buckets: Mistaken Expectations?” - #47/June 2004
Cover Story: “Where are the Sites? The Emerging Context for ‘USTfields’ ” by Charlie Bartsch. Other articles include “Lead Scavengers: A Leaded Gasoline Legacy?”, “Tracking Troubling Vapor Releases in New Hampshire,” and “The Limits of Leak Detection.” An online-only supplement, featuring a series of detailed photographs of pipes and sumps, is also now available. - #46/March 2004 Cover Story: "Finishing Strong: A Glance Back, A Look Forward at the UST Program" by Robert Renkes
- #45/October 2003/Cover Story "Oh What a Tangled Web!: Gasoline Oxygenates, Petroleum Distribution Networks, and Detections in Groundwater at LUST Sites" by Michael Martinson
- #44/July 2003/Cover Story "A Hot Dog by Any Other Name Could Be Your Drinking Water" by Patricia Ellis
- #43/March 2003/Cover Story "The Tortoise and the Hare Revisited/Reaching the Goal Effectively and Efficiently: The Path Not Yet Taken," by Marcel Moreau
- #42/October 2002/Cover Story "Analytical Methods for Fuel Oxygenates," by Hal White, Barry Lesnik, and John Wilson
- #41/June 2002/Cover Story "Looking for Leaks in All the Wrong Places: A Short Story With an Epiphany," by Marcel Moreau
- #40/March 2002/Cover Story
"Tanks at Ground Zero," by Karen Gomez
Also: “Of Square Pegs and Round Tanks”, by Marcel Moreau - #39/November 2001/Cover Story "USTs-A View From Europe," by Jamie Thompson
- #38/June 2001/Cover Story "Live and Learn: With Federal UST Regulations More Than 15 Years Old, It's High Time to Heed What We've Learned in the Meantime," by Marcel Moreau, Patricia Ellis, Ellen Frye
- #37/March 2001/Cover Story "Setting Our Sights on Operational Compliance," by Ben Thomas
- #36/November 2000/Cover Story "The Future is Coming to a Web Site Near You," by Ann Bonner Carpenter
Please Note: Cover stories from issues #1-#35 are not available on this site. Should you desire one of them, contact NEIWPCC at 978-323-7929 to obtain a printed version of the complete issue.