Technical Guidance for screening contaminated Sediments

Title Page......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
I. Executive Summary......Page 6
II. Background and Objectives......Page 7
III. Need, Basis, and Concept of Sediment Criteria......Page 8
IV. Derivation of Sediment Criteria for Non-polar Organic Compounds......Page 11
VI. Derivation of Sediment Quality Criteria for Metals......Page 17
VII. Use of Sediment Criteria in Risk Management Decisions......Page 21
VIII. Implementation of Sediment Criteria for Screening......Page 23
Table 1. Sediment Criteria for Non-polar Organic Compounds......Page 26
Table 2. Sediment Criteria for Metals......Page 32
Appendix 1. Basis for the WQ Criteria Used for Deriving Sediment Criteria.........Page 33
Appendix 2. Further Information about the Metals Criteria Developed.........Page 38
Appendix 3. Literature Cited......Page 40
Appendix 4. Change in the Guidance for Marine and Estuarine Sediments......Page 44