chapter 1 Regulatory Mandates for Ground-Water Monitoring / chapter 2 Environmental Site Characterization / chapter 3 Monitoring and Sampling the Vadose Zone / chapter 4 Remote Sensing and Geophysical Methods for Evaluation of Subsurface Conditions / chapter 5 Environmental Drilling for Soil Sampling, Rock Coring, Borehole Logging, and Monitoring Well Installation / chapter 6 Use of Direct-Push Technologies in Environmental Site Characterization and Ground-Water Monitoring / chapter 7 DNAPL Characterization Methods and Approaches: Performance and Cost Comparisons / chapter 8 Ground-Water Monitoring System Design / chapter 9 Designing Monitoring Programs to Effectively Evaluate the Performance of Natural Attenuation / chapter 10 Design and Installation of Ground-Water Monitoring Wells / chapter 11 Multilevel Ground-Water Monitoring / chapter 12 Monitoring Well Post-Installation Considerations / chapter 13 Acquisition and Interpretation of Water-Level Data / chapter 14 Methods and Procedures for Defining Aquifer Parameters -- chapter 15 Ground-Water Sampling / chapter 16 Ground-Water Sample Analysis / chapter 17 Organization and Analysis of Ground-Water Quality Data / chapter 18 Diagnosis of Ground-Water Monitoring Problems / chapter 19 Health and Safety Considerations in Ground-Water Monitoring Investigations / chapter 20 Decontamination of Field Equipment Used in Environmental Site Characterization and Ground-Water Monitoring Projects