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Guidelines for Using Passive Samplers to Monitor Organic Contaminants at Superfund Sediment Sites
Citation:
BURGESS, R. M. Guidelines for Using Passive Samplers to Monitor Organic Contaminants at Superfund Sediment Sites. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-11/115, 2012.
Impact/Purpose:
Passive samplers are monitoring tools that can provide faster, cheaper, and scientifically-sound information about the water column and interstitial water concentrations of contaminants of concern (CoCs) at Superfund sites. Often, the use of passive samplers is more effective than the application of conventional sampling techniques. This SAMS document discusses advantages and disadvantages of using passive samplers including costs, the information passive samplers provide, the different types of passive samplers, and some theory on how passive samplers function. Further, this document describes the preparation, deployment, recovery, and storage of passive samplers, the selection of passive samplers, and the analysis of passive sampler data. An example calculation is provided as well as a brief case study and description of some of the scientific challenges remaining relative to passive samplers. Because of the many advantages passive sampling has over conventional sampling for environmental management and research applications, passive sampling is very likely to have a dominant role in the future of environmental sampling and monitoring.
Description:
Passive samplers are monitoring tools that can provide faster, cheaper, and scientifically-sound information about the water column and interstitial water concentrations of contaminants of concern (COC) at Superfund sites. Often, the use of passive samplers is more effective than the application of conventional sampling techniques. This SAMS discussed advantages and disadvantages of using passive samplers including costs, the information passive samplers provide, the different types of passive samplers, and some theory on how passive samplers function. Further, this document described the preparation, deployment, recovery, and storage of passive samplers, the selection of passive samplers, and the analysis of passive sampler data. An example calculation is provided as well as a brief case study and description of some of the scientific challenges remaining relative to passive samplers. Because of the many advantages passive sampling has over conventional sampling for environmental management and research applications, passive sampling is very likely to have a dominant role in the future of environmental sampling and monitoring.
URLs/Downloads:
RB PASSIVE SAMPLERS.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 1667 KB, about PDF)Guidelines for Using Passive Samplers to Monitor Organic Contaminants at Superfund Sediment Sites
