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UK Soil Guideline Values (SGVs) provide a coherent and consistent way to assess risk to human health from soil contamination ^[1] . The values can be used to assess land in conjunction with UK legislation: Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Town and Country Planning Acts. Any decisions using these values can be seen as being based on sound science. This has become increasingly important as classing land as contaminated can blight an area and cause public concern over the health effects. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Excavation of leaking underground storage tank causing soil contamination Soil contamination is the presence of man-made chemicals or other alteration of the natural soil environment. ... The UK EPA 1990 covers: Part I Integrated Pollution Control (now superseded by Intergrated Pollution Prevention and Contol) including authorisations, enforcements, publicity, and provisions as to offences Part II Waste including on land, harmful depositing, treatment, duty of care, waste management licences, controlled wastes, special and uncontrolled wastes, publicity, supervision...

These soil guideline values completely supersede the old ICRCL (Interdepartmental Committee on the Redevelopment of Contaminated Land) values. Values are compiled by modelling human exposure with the use of the land known as Contaminated Land Exposure Assessment (CLEA). This creates separate values for:

• Residential (with or without vegetable growing, allotments
• Commercial / industrial

The first values were published by the Environment Agency on the 2002-03-14 and totalled 10. There are plans for more to be published in the future as research projects are completed ^[2]. (see also the List of environmental organizations) The Environment Agency (Welsh: Asiantaeth yr Amgylchedd) of England and Wales was created by the Environment Act 1995, along with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

The current Soil Guideline Values are (all amounts are in mg kg^-1 dry weight soil):

SGV1 Arsenic
Residential with plant uptake 20
Allotments 20
Residential without plant uptake 20
Commercial / Industrial 500
General Name, Symbol, Number arsenic, As, 33 Chemical series metalloids Group, Period, Block 15, 4, p Appearance metallic gray Standard atomic weight 74. ...

SGV3 Cadmium pH 6 pH 7 pH 8
Residential with plant uptake and allotments 1 2 8
Residential without plant uptake 30 30 30
Commercial 1400 1400 1400
General Name, Symbol, Number cadmium, Cd, 48 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 12, 5, d Appearance silvery gray metallic Standard atomic weight 112. ...

SGV4 Chromium
Residential with plant uptake 130
Allotments 130
Residential without plant uptake 200
Commercial / Industrial 5000
General Name, Symbol, Number chromium, Cr, 24 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 6, 4, d Appearance silvery metallic Standard atomic weight 51. ...

SGV5 Inorganic Mercury
Residential with plant uptake 8
Allotments 8
Residential without plant uptake 15
Commercial /. Industrial 480
General Name, Symbol, Number mercury, Hg, 80 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 12, 6, d Appearance silvery Standard atomic weight 200. ...

SGV7 Nickel
Residential with plant uptake 50
Allotments 50
Residential without plant uptake 75
Commercial / Industrial 5000
General Name, Symbol, Number nickel, Ni, 28 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 4, d Appearance lustrous, metallic and silvery with a gold tinge Standard atomic weight 58. ...

SGV8 Phenol 1%SOM 2.5% SOM 5% SOM
Residential with plant uptake 78 150 280
Allotment 80 155 280
Residential without plant uptake 21,900 34,400 37,300
Commercial / Industrial 21,900 43,000 78,100
Phenol, also known under an older name of carbolic acid, is a colourless crystalline solid with a typical sweet tarry odor. ...

SGV9 Selenium
Residential with plant uptake 35
Allotment 35
Residential without plant uptake 260
Commercial/ Industrial 8000
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SGV10 Lead
Residential with plant uptake 450
Allotments 450
Residential without plant uptake 450
Commercial / Industrial 750
For Pb as an abbreviation, see PB. General Name, Symbol, Number lead, Pb, 82 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 6, p Appearance bluish gray Standard atomic weight 207. ...

SGV15 Toluene 1%SOM 2.5% SOM 5% SOM
Residential with plant uptake 3 7 14
Allotments 31 73 140
Residential without plant uptake 3 8 15
Commercial / Industrial 150 350 680
Toluene, also known as methylbenzene or phenylmethane is a clear, water-insoluble liquid with the typical smell of paint thinners, redolent of the sweet smell of the related compound benzene. ...

SGV16 Ethylbenzene 1%SOM 2.5% SOM 5% SOM
Residential with plant uptake 9 21 41
Allotments 18 43 85
Residential without plant uptake 16 41 80
Commercial / Industrial 48,000 48,000 48,000
Chemical Structure of Ethylbenzene Ethylbenzene is an organic chemical compound which is an aromatic hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C8H10. ...

External links

• Environment Agency Publications

References

Environment Agency *Environment Agency Publications

Category: Category:Pollution