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Incremental Sampling Methods & Best Practices for Lead Investigations Cathy Amoroso U.S EPA, Region 4 Superfund Division FRTR November 8, 2017 Former Chattanooga Foundries 60+ foundries historically located in Chattanooga.

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Incremental Sampling Methods & Best Practices for Lead Investigations

Cathy Amoroso U.S EPA, Region 4 Superfund Division

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Former Chattanooga Foundries

 60+ foundries historically located in Chattanooga.  Generated spent sand and baghouse dust

  • ver many

decades.

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Former Chattanooga Foundries

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Spent Foundry Sand

 Foundry waste material can contain lead  Foundry material was used as fill

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Initial EPA Involvement

  • 2011: resident presented

at ER with Pb poisoning

  • 2012: EPA removed Pb

contaminated soil at 84 residences

  • Limited geographic area
  • Extent of contamination

undefined

  • Other residential areas

may be similarly impacted

  • Risk undefined
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Potential Large Urban Lead Site: Where to Begin?

Is all of downtown Chattanooga contaminated? NO

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Objectives of the Investigation

 Establish urban background levels  Collect high quality data to support risk management decisions  Produce data that can be used for multiple purposes:

  • Site characterization
  • Time-critical removal decisions
  • Future RI & Risk Assessment
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Best Practices for Sampling for Lead in Soil

  • Establish robust background concentration/range
  • Incremental Sampling Method (ISM)
  • OLEM Directive for sieving soil at lead sites
  • EPA Superfund XRF Field Operating Guide
  • Lead bioavailability testing
  • Develop site-specific cleanup level for lead
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Best Practice: Establish Background Level for Lead

Chattanooga Urban Bkg Study  5x5 mile grid; 50 randomly selected cells  Used SAP/QAPP template from larger R4 urban background study  7 metals associated with foundries: Pb, As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Zn

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  • Background lead consistent with other Southeastern cities
  • Robust background dataset ready for RI
  • Elevated lead is not “everywhere”

Urban Background Results

RSL Mean Bkg (SI) Urban background 95% UTL

Lead 400 60 175 Arsenic 0.68 3.4 7 Chromium 25 33

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Chattanooga Lead Background vs. 5 Cities

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Identify Study Areas

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Field Operation

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Best Practice: Incremental Sampling Methodology (ISM)

Why ISM?

Superior method to derive an unbiased estimate of the mean concentration of a given area (i.e. decision unit) One ISM sample is collected for each decision unit Each sample is comprised of 30 aliquots, and produces

  • ne concentration that

represents the entire decision unit (yard) Statistically defensible data

  • n which to base decisions
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Incremental Sampling in Chattanooga

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Collecting ISM: Time & Effort

One 30-point composite from a residential yard takes 8 minutes to collect

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ISM Includes Representative Subsampling

Guidance for Obtaining Representative Laboratory Analytical Subsamples from Particulate Laboratory Samples EPA/600/R-03/027, November 2003

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Disaggregation and Drying

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OLEM Lead Sieving Directive

Recommendations for Sieving Soil and Dust Samples at Lead Sites for Assessment of Incidental Ingestion, OLEM Directive 9200.1-128

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OLEM Lead Sieving Directive

  • Recommends < 150 µm particle size (#100 mesh)
  • Incidental ingestion greater for fine particles.
  • Dermal adherence greater for fine particles.
  • Increased contaminant concentration, mobility, and

bioavailability in fine particles.

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Dermal Adherence

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Sieve of Stacked Mesh (#10 and #100)

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Fine Fraction <150 microns

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Lead Concentrates in the Fine Fraction

Pb in mg/kg

Unsieved Sieved 603 1016 837 1832 1434 4021 1245 2300 591 936

At this site, sieved soil has approximately 100 ppm higher concentration than in unsieved.

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ISM Includes Representative Subsampling

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Representative subsamples for analysis

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Best Practice: X-Ray Fluorescence Field Operations Guide

Superfund X-Ray Fluorescence Field Operations Guide, EPA Region 4, July 19, 2017 (SFDGUID-001-R0)  Tool for OSCs and RPMs  Methodology to collect high quality XRF data for lead and arsenic  Provides real-time data  Multiple readings and QA/QC measures  Produces “definitive” data = data of sufficient quality to use in remedial and removal decisions and in the BLRA

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XRF vs Lab Data: Lead

R Squared = 0.98 Excellent agreement between XRF data and lab data.

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XRF vs. Lab: Pb

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 Lab Pb XRF Pb

XRF provides reliable, reproducible & defensible data for Pb for this project (n = 300+)

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Best Practice: Site-specific Clean-up Levels for Lead

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Best Practice: Lead Bioavailability

Bioavailability

  • A measure of the amount of lead absorbed into bloodstream
  • Important input in clean up level
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Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic

(IEUBK) Model

Predicts blood lead levels in children resulting from environmental exposures. Utilized by EPA to set cleanup goals for lead in soil.

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 Use site-specific lead bioavailability in the IEUBK model  ‘ BA will “ health-based clean-up level  IEUBK default BA = 30%  In this case, 33 soil samples were analyzed for lead bioavailability  Chattanooga site soils BA = 29-50%; mean = 36%  Other inputs to IEUBK being updated, esp. target blood lead level

Best Practice: Site-specific Clean-up Levels for Lead

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SOP for In Vitro Lead and Arsenic Testing

Standard Operating Procedure… OLEM, May 5, 2017

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 Elevated lead is not “everywhere; can distinguish between suspect material and urban background  Data supports risk management decisions  Unacceptable risk at some properties  Removal warranted at some properties  Remedial action planned  Site-specific cleanup level can be developed

Conclusion of Chattanooga Soil Study

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Best Practices for Sampling for Lead in Soil

  • Establish robust background concentration/range
  • Incremental Sampling Method (ISM)
  • Sieve soil; analyze fine fraction
  • Consider XRF analysis
  • Determine site-specific lead bioavailability
  • Develop site-specific cleanup level for lead
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Q & A