Site Evaluation for Dioxin at Superfund Sites
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Sampling of dioxin
- Guidance on Data Quality Objectives (DQOs), which are used as a basis for establishing the quality and quantity of data needed to support decisions.
- Guidance on how to create sampling designs to collect environmental measurement data.
- Guidance on Choosing a Sampling Design for Environmental Data Collection for Use in Developing a Quality Assurance Project Plan
EPA/240/R-02/005, December 2002.
- Guidance on Choosing a Sampling Design for Environmental Data Collection for Use in Developing a Quality Assurance Project Plan
- Guidance on a sampling approach for surface soils used in the sample strategy for implementing the soil screening process.
- Soil Screening Guidance: Technical Background Document
EPA/540/R-96/128, 1996.
- Soil Screening Guidance: Technical Background Document
- Technical information on using incremental composite sampling (ICS) to evaluate dioxin contaminated soil.
- User Guide - Uniform Federal Policy Quality Assurance Project Plan Template For Soils Assessment of Dioxin Sites (PDF)(112 pp, 5.9 MB)
September 2011
- User Guide - Uniform Federal Policy Quality Assurance Project Plan Template For Soils Assessment of Dioxin Sites (PDF)(112 pp, 5.9 MB)
- An ICS example quality assurance project plan in the format of the Unified Federal Policy.
Analytical methods for dioxin
The Superfund Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) provides analytical services.
- The following fact sheet provides information on the analysis of seventeen 2,3,7,8-substituted tetra- through octa- chlorinated dibenzo-dioxins and chlorinated dibenzo-furans in water, soil, sediment, sludge, non-human tissue, ash, oil, and oily matrices.
- Dioxin and Furan Analytical Services (DLM02.2) (PDF)(4 pp, 421 K)
- The following fact sheet provides information on the analysis of 209 substituted mono- through deca- polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners, which include dioxin-like PCB congeners, in water, soil, sediment, sludge, non-human tissue, ash, oil, and oily matrices.