NJDEP SRP - Guidance for Sediment Quality Evaluations

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Guidance For Sediment Quality Evaluations

November 1998

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609-633-1348
Edward Demarest, Ph.D.
Nancy Hamill
Greg Neumann

DEP Mission Statement
Credits and Print Edition Ordering Information
1.0	Introduction
2.0	Sampling Plan Design
	2.1	Sediment Sampling Plan
	2.2	Special Considerations for Sampling in Tidally-Influenced Areas
	2.3	Chemical Characterization of Upgradient and/or Off-Site Reference Conditions
	2.4	Surface Water Quality Investigations and Criteria
3.0	Sediment Screening Values for Use in the Baseline Ecological Evaluation
	3.1	Inorganics, Semivolatile Organics, Pesticides/PCBs
	3.2	Volatile Organics
	3.3	Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPHC)
	3.4	Comparison of Site-Related Data to Sediment Screening Values
4.0	Biological Evaluations for Use in the Ecological Risk Assessment
	4.1	Sediment Toxicity Testing
	4.2	Benthic Macroinvertebrate Surveys
	4.3	Tissue Residue Analysis

Table 1.	Freshwater Sediment Screening Guidelines (Ontario, Persaud et al., 1993)
Table 2.	Marine/Estuarine Sediment Screening Guidelines (Long et al., 1995)
Table 3.	Volatile Organic Compound Screening Guidelines (Environment Canada, MacDonald et al., 1992)

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