Suspicious that their household drinking water from a well was somehow being contaminated with gasoline, a family living in a farmhouse investigated possible sources of groundwater contamination Sure enough, the underground storage tanks for gasoline at a nearby filling station were leaking. Promising to pay to fix the problem, the station owners sealed the gas tank and pumped out the contaminated groundwater. After several months of rain, the groundwater supplies were restored and the water in the well was safe to drink. This situation illustrated an example of

A) reverse osmosis refinement.
B) maximum containment remuneration.
C) groundwater remediation.
D) well-water containment.


C

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