| Chemical quality of water and sediments, Kearny Marsh | ||||
| SEDIMENT ANALYSIS | ||||
| Data from Table 3 of Langan Report on Kearny Marsh | ||||
| Sampled April and May, 1999 | ||||
| Sample Location/ID | W18 | |||
| Depth feet | Ontario Aquatic | 0-0.5 | ||
| Sediment Criterion | ||||
| Sampling Date | LEL (lowest effects limit) | SEL (severe effects limit) | Units | 5/26/99 |
| VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS | ||||
| Methylene Choride | mg/kg | ND | ||
| Total Xylenes | mg/kg | |||
| VOLATILE ORGANIC TICs | ND | |||
| Acetone | mg/kg | |||
| Substituted benzene | mg/kg | |||
| Unknown alkane | mg/kg | |||
| Unknown | mg/kg | |||
| Unknown aliphatic | mg/kg | |||
| Unkown cyclic hydrocarbon | mg/kg | |||
| Unknown hydrocarbon | mg/kg | |||
| Unknown aromatic | mg/kg | |||
| SEMIVOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS | ||||
| Di-n-butyl phthalate | mg/kg | ND | ||
| Phenanthrene | mg/kg | |||
| Flouranthene | 0.75 | 1,020 | mg/kg | |
| Pyrene | 0.49 | 850 | mg/kg | |
| Butylbenzylphthalate | mg/kg | |||
| Benzo(a)anthracene | 0.32 | 1480 | mg/kg | |
| chrysene | 0.34 | 460 | mg/kg | |
| Benzo(b)flouranthene | mg/kg | |||
| Benzo(k)flouranthene | 0.24 | 1,340 | mg/kg | |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | 0.37 | 1,440 | mg/kg | |
| Ideno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene | 0.2 | 320 | mg/kg | |
| Dibenz[a,h]anthracene | mg/kg | |||
| bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate | mg/kg | |||
| Di-n-octylphthalate | mg/kg | |||
| Benzo(g,h,i)peryene | 0.17 | 320 | mg/kg | |
| Phenol | mg/kg | ND | ||
| SEMIVOLATILE ORGANIC TICS | ||||
| Uknown aromatic | mg/kg | 276.14 | ||
| Uknown | mg/kg | 24.2 | ||
| Uknown alkane | mg/kg | 226.92 | ||
| Vitamin E | mg/kg | ND | ||
| Substituted phthalate | mg/kg | |||
| TOTAL PCBs | mg/kg | ND | ||
| PESTICIDES | ||||
| alpha-Chlordane | mg/kg | |||
| gamma-Chlordane | mg/kg | |||
| 4,4'-DDD | 0.008 | 6 | mg/kg | ND |
| 4.4'-DDT | 0.008 | 71 | mg/kg | ND |
| Aldrin | 0.002 | 8 | mg/kg | |
| 4,4'-DDE | 0.005 | 19 | mg/kg | |
| Endrin Ketone | mg/kg | |||
| METALS | ||||
| Antimony | mg/kg | |||
| Arsenic | 6 | 33 | mg/kg | 106 |
| Berylium | mg/kg | |||
| Cadmiun | 0.6 | 10 | mg/kg | 4.22 |
| Chromium | 26 | 110 | mg/kg | 210 |
| Copper | 16 | 110 | mg/kg | 577 |
| Lead | 31 | 250 | mg/kg | 2030 |
| Mercury | 0.2 | 2 | mg/kg | 1.84 |
| Nickel | 16 | 75 | mg/kg | 118 |
| Selenium | mg/kg | |||
| Silver | mg/kg | |||
| Thalium | mg/kg | 2.12 | ||
| Zinc | 120 | 820 | mg/kg | 1300 |
| WET CHEMISTRY | ||||
| Cyanide | mg/kg | ND | ||
| Phenol | mg/kg | ND | ||
| Total petroleum Hydrocarbons | mg/kg | 595 | ||
| Corrosivity as pH | S.U | 7.52 | ||
| Total organic carbons | mg/kg | 46000 |