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Data Management Support
The United Kingdom has several environmental standards that must be followed to ensure the health and well-being of the people and the environment. These standards include laws and regulations protecting natural resources and the environment from pollutants and hazardous materials.…
The Water Framework Directive advocates for the protection and improvement of water quality to achieve good ecological status. The UKTAG Water Framework Directive on Groundwater Hazardous Substances aims to provide guidelines and directions regarding the methods and procedures applied in…
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) and other European Union directions play a significant role in formulating the United Kingdom’s environmental quality standards for freshwaters. The WFD is key to protecting groundwaters, lakes, rivers, estuaries and coastal areas. The Environment Agency…
Regional Screening Levels (RSL) refers to risk-based concentrations developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency using standardized equations which integrate exposure information assumptions with EPA’s toxicity data. RSLs aim to protect human health by assessing the risk the contaminants…
British Columbia Protocol 10 allows for developing water quality standards for cadmium and zinc and is applied in specific sites to protect freshwater aquatic life. The protocol provides a table containing precalculated and preapproved water quality standards for water hardness…
A bore log is a record detailing the in-situ conditions and aspects of geotechnical exploration activities such as drilling boreholes and mining. The log information needed to create a borehole log is obtained through visual inspection of samples obtained from…
A chemical quality assurance report refers to documentation that consist of planned and systematic actions focused on providing information about the accuracy, reliability, usability and comparability of analysis done on chemicals in a particular setting, for instance, those found in…
Default Guidelines Values (DGVs) are developed according to risk assessment principles by using data derived from laboratory tests in clean water. The species sensitivity distribution (SSD) method is used in deriving DGVs for toxicants during water quality assessment. In circumstances…
The Saskatchewan Environmental Quality Guidelines provides the desired concentration of substances in the environment to enforce the protection of pathways. It includes protection of water, air, soil and sediments. The pathway-specific criteria applied in the guidelines are informed by the…
The Government of Yukon’s Environmental Programs Branch regulates contaminated sites under the Contaminated Sites Regulation and the Environment Act. The Yukon Contaminated Sites Regulation provide regulations for identification, restoration and liability for contaminated sites. It states that a site is…
NSW Excavated Natural Material standards and guidelines are passed by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), and it provides the requirements that should be observed by suppliers of excavated natural materials regarding uses such as application in earthworks or engineering fills.…
Access to safe drinking water is essential as a health and development issue at national, regional and local levels. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed WHO drinking water guidelines to formulate national standards and regulations to enforce water safety and…
Vapor intrusion (VI) occurs when volatile chemicals find their way from the subsurface to overlying buildings through preferential pathways or subsurface soils. Vapor intrusion affects the indoor air quality of the concerned buildings and leads to chronic or acute human…
The New Jersey (USA) AC 7 26 D Remediation Standards developed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is responsible for the implementation of the Brownfield and Contaminated Site Remediation Act, NJSA 58:10B-12, among other statutes such as The Industrial Site…
The Kansas policy on TPH and LNAPL provide guidelines observed in implementing initiatives to address petroleum contaminated sites. Such initiatives include characterizing, remediating, and managing the release of petroleum into the environment. The policy was developed to be used in…
The Risk-Based Standards for Kansas is a manual that details the processes of instating site-specific and chemical-specific clean-up goals for groundwater, soil and indoor air (Kansas Department of Health and Environment, 2010). The United States Environmental Protection Agency and other…