Soil guideline value

Land and land use

Published in Stephen Battersby, Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health, 2016

Soil guideline values are one form of environmental benchmark that can be used as a quantitative guideline for concentrations of contaminants in soil in order to allow for a consistent approach to risk assessment of contaminated sites. These guideline values are produced by the Environment Agency based on toxicological information on health effects, produced originally by the Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England) known as Health Criteria Values [40–43]. They are quantitative calculations using conservative input parameters, assumptions and methods which take account of toxicity, routes of exposure (ingestion, inhalation, contact, duration of exposure and receptor sensitivity) to provide indicative intervention values.

The assessment of soil contamination by heavy metals using geostatistical sequential Gaussian simulation method

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Published in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 2018

Adem Ersoy, Tayfun Yusuf Yünsel

The quantitative soil contamination assessment maps (both deterministic and probabilistic) are based on soil guideline values (SGV) approach, thus the soil maps are classified on the basis of a determined regularity threshold value. In this case CLEA (2009) SGV for heavy elements Cu, Ni and Cr:130 mg/kg, Zn:300 mg/kg, Ba:400 mg/kg, and Pb:450 mg/kg (Table 1) has been chosen respectively. However, local specific statutory SGV may be used. Toxic effects associated with the ingestion of high concentrations of heavy metals are given in Table 5.

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