1. Accum, F.C., 1815. Practical Treatise on Gas Light; Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories with Carburetted Hydrogen or Coal-Gas; With Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this New Branch of Civil Economy 1st edn.: R. Ackerman, London, 186 pp., +4 pp. ads. with seven color plates, three of which are wood engravings (Author's actual name was Frederich Christian Accum; Several editions were issued up to 1819; Author lived 1769–1838).
2. American Gas-Light Journal: One of many historic gas journals of great utility in conduct of background studies toward effective site and waste characterization of FMGPS. This is the only historic American gas journal known to the author to be available on microfilm, in its entirety, from 1859, as offered by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI.
3. Lessons learned; a history and evolution of site characterization;Beam,1997
4. Brown's Directory of North American Gas Companies; From 1889. Available on microfilm from Advanstar Marketing Services, 7500 Old Oak Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44130 (800), pp. 598–6008.
5. Personal Communication: Consulting Geologist and Engineer, Des Plaines, IL, July;Hambley,2001