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A demonstration of the Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group (TPHCWG) approach for assessing human health risk at weathered petroleum release sites was performed at a petroleum, oil and lubricant underground storage tank site (JP-4 and JP-4-8) located at the Springfield Air National Guard Base, Springfield, Ohio. A total of nine subsurface soil samples were obtained for this demonstration project at subsurface depths ranging from 4 to 6 feet. Soil analyses included both volatile and extractable petroleum hydrocarbons using the TPHCWG direct method and the Massachusetts Department 0 Environmental Protection (MA DEP) methodology to compare the approaches. Soil core composites were analyzed for trichloroethylene, gasoline-range organics, volatile petroleum hydrocarbons, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX), diesel-range organics, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and extractable petroleum hydrocarbons using both the TPHCWG and MA DEP protocols. No benzene or trichloroethylene was detected and only trace concentrations of toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes were. detected. Results, in combination with the finding of very low concentrations of BTEX, indicated that the hydrocarbons detected in site soils were composed of a weathered petroleum mixture. Overall, the TPHCWG approach provides better insight into the nature of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination (i.e., it provides more robust fractional analysis data) and is less likely to overestimate the risk posed to human receptors under the same exposure scenario.
A demonstration of the Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group (TPHCWG) approach for assessing human health risk at weathered petroleum release sites was performed at a former underground storage tank (UST) release site at Elmendorf Air Force Base (EAFB), Alaska. The site, ST702/8, Military Airlift Command (MAC) Chalet (Building 31562), a recreational cabin, is impacted by diesel fuel. A total of ten soil samples were obtained at depths to 12 feet below the ground surface (bgs). The soil samples were analyzed for total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) as TPH gasoline range organics (GRO) and TPH diesel range organics (DRO), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and petroleum fractions. Six of the ten primary soil samples contained TPH DRO concentrations above the Alaska Method Two cleanup standard for petroleum migration to groundwater (250 mg/kg). RBSLs were calculated for a recreational and a commercial exposure scenario. For the recreational scenario, only one soil sample exceeded the Tier 1 total TPH RBSL (955 mg/kg). For the commercial exposure scenario four of the site soil samples contained TPH in concentrations that exceeded the Tier 1 total TPH RBSL for the subsurface soil indoor vapor inhalation pathway. Higher tier (Tier 2) risk evaluations are recommended for select data before any remedial actions are imposed.
"This document is the fifth in a series from the Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group (TPHCWG, or "Working Group"). The Working Group convened in 1993 to address the large disparity among cleanup requirements being used by states at sites contaminated with hydrocarbon materials such as fuels, lubricating oils, and crude oils. These requirements usually focus on total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH), with numerical standards ranging from tens to tens of thousands of milligrams of TPH per kilogram of soil. Recognizing that these standards are not based on a scientific assessment of human health risk, Working Group members established the following goal for their effort: To develop scientifically defensible information for establishing soil cleanup levels that are protective of human health at petroleum release sites."--Page vii.
A demonstration of the Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group (TPHCWG) approach for assessing human health risk at weathered petroleum release sites was performed at a former above ground storage fuel farm (FF) located at Dobbins Air Force Base, Marietta, Georgia. The fuel farm was used to store and dispense jet petroleum (JP) fuel, blend numbers 4, 5 and S (i.e., JP-4, JP-5 and JP-8) over a period of approximately 40 years, from the mid l950s through the early 1990s. Use of the FF was discontinued in 1993. A preliminary site characterization survey performed in 1997 detected total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) at concentrations ranging from 517 mg/kg to 2,239 mg/kg in four of eight grab samples of soil. A total of 15 primary soil samples were collected at depths ranging from 1.0 to 8.5 feet belowground surface to support the TPHCWG demonstration. Grab samples collected in Encore samplers from the sampling interval were analyzed by International Technology (IT) Corp. (EMAX Lab, Inc.) for TPH gasoline range orgaincs (GRO) and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes (BTEX). Soil composited from the sampling interval was split and subsequently analyzed by EMAX Lab for TPH diesel range organincs (DRO) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and by Operational Technologies (OpTech) Corp (Lancaster Laboratories) for aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons fractions.
Site 21 at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma was selected as a demonstration site for the Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Working Group approach for establishing Risk Based Screening Levels. The site had been previously characterized using conventional analyses and was recommended for natural attenuation. Contaminants included JP-4 and diesel fuels. Groundwater and soil samples were collected and analyzed using the Direct Method, specified by the Working Group. A Tier I risk assessment was performed to determine clean-up levels. Average site concentrations did not exceed the average Risk Based Screening Levels. The bulk of the contaminated soil has not weathered significantly, but the recommendation for natural attenuation was confirmed.