ASTM STP 1158 Superfund Risk Assessment in Soil Contamination Studies
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Hoddinott, KB
This publication contains papers presented at the Superfund Risk Assessment in Soil Contamination Studies symposium held in January, 1991. The symposium was sponsored by ASTM Committee D-18 on Soil and Rock and its Subcommittees D18.06 on Physico-Chemical Properties of Soil, D18.14 on Geotechnics of Waste Management, and in cooperation with the U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency.
The topic headings used to organize the papers in this publication are
- Site Characterization
- Fate and Transport
- Toxicity, Exposures, and Receptors
- Risk Characterization/Case Studies
- Establishing Cleanup Levels
Examples of specific addressed by the papers in this collection include:
- site description
- soil description
- hazardous waste site characterization
- field screening procedures
- human health risk assessments
- chemical of concern
- baseline risk assessment
- contaminant transport software
- TETrans
- indicator chemical selection
- remediation efficacy
- hydrocarbon contaminated soils
- childhood ingestion
- lifetime carcinogenic risk
- uptake biokinetic (UBK) lead model
- radiological and chemical waste risk estimating
- reducing number of chemical of concern
- ecological risk assessment
- probabilistic techniques for backcalculating cleanup targets
This collection is useful to the experienced risk assessor. The papers contained in this STP present modifications of the basic EPA methodology which were acceptable to regulators at specific sites prior to the symposium. This should not be construed to mean that these methods will be acceptable at all sites, in all situations, or to all regulators. Rather, it is a laundry list of methods which may be helpful for complex issues at a site.