Love Canal Emergency Declaration Area habitability study. Volume 3. Soil assessment: indicator chemicals. Final report

Technical Report · Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6676427

Environmental studies were conducted to provide data that could be used by the Commissioner of Health for the State of New York in determining whether the Emergency Declaration Area (EDA) surrounding the Love Canal hazardous-waste site is habitable. The soil assessment compared concentrations of the Love Canal Indicator Chemicals found in the EDA to concentrations found in similar western New York communities. An analytical technique was developed to detect the indicator chemicals at very low levels, i.e. 1.0 ppb. The analytical technique utilized a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer operating in the selected ion monitoring mode. The analytical results were statistically compared between the EDA and the comparison areas using a modified Wilcoxon rank sum test.

• Research Organization: CH2M Hill Southeast, Inc., Reston, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6676427
• Report Number(s): PB-88-249123/XAB
• Resource Relation: Other Information: See also Volume 2, PB--88-249115 and Volume 4, PB--88-249131. Errata sheet inserted. Portions of this document are not fully legible; Also available in set of 5 reports PC E99, PB--88-249099
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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