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Performance Assessment of Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation

Walter A. Illman Waterloo Institute for Groundwater Research, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Pedro J. Alvarez Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Pages 209-270 | Published online: 26 Mar 2009

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