Download or read book Review and Comparison of a Protocol for the Derivation of Ecological Effects-based and Human Health-based Soil Quality Criteria for Contaminated Sites, July 1993... and A Rationale for the Development of Soil, Drinking Water, and Air Quality Criteria for Lead, October 1993, Including Reference to Scientific Criteria Document for Multi-media Environmental Standards Development, March 1994... written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document reviews two publications dealing with cleanup standards (quality criteria) for contaminated sites, one a generic protocol for deriving soil quality criteria and the other a proposed quality criterion for lead in Ontario soils. The review critiques each publication from the housing sector perspective, with a special emphasis on soils in urban centers. For each document, the review summarizes the rationale for the criteria, identifies the relative strengths of the arguments involved, and identifies limitations of the criteria such as scope, errors of omission, and simplifying assumptions. The review then assesses the criteria from the soil cleanup perspective, including their flexibility to deal with different building forms and systems and the predictability of costs and work required for compliance. Finally, the review compares derivation methods contained in the two publications.