Search Result
Technology Innovation News Survey Feed (RSS)
PENTACHLOROPHENOL, POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS AND POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO FURANS IN SURFACE SOIL SURROUNDING PENTACHLOROPHENOL-TREATED UTILITY POLES ON THE KENAI NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, ALASKA, USA
Verbrugge, L.A., L. Kahn, and J.M. Morton.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research International 25(19):19187-19195(2018)
Composite surface soil samples were collected at 0, 25, and 50 cm from the base of 12 utility poles on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, to assess the extent to which pentachlorophenol (PCP), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, and polychlorinated dibenzo furans might have leached from PCP-treated poles. Each of six pairs of utility poles consisted of a pole manufactured in 1959 or 1963 and a pole manufactured within the past 20 years. A suitable background soil was sampled from each poles' vicinity. Old poles had greater concentrations of 2,3,7,8-TCDD equivalents (TEQs) near the pole base and at 25 cm than did newer poles. Surface soil levels of PCP and TCDD-TEQs exceeded both human health and ecological risk-based screening levels, suggesting that millions of similarly treated utility poles in North America might be point sources of PCP and dioxins/furans to soil. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6061508/
Environmental Science and Pollution Research International 25(19):19187-19195(2018)
Composite surface soil samples were collected at 0, 25, and 50 cm from the base of 12 utility poles on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, to assess the extent to which pentachlorophenol (PCP), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, and polychlorinated dibenzo furans might have leached from PCP-treated poles. Each of six pairs of utility poles consisted of a pole manufactured in 1959 or 1963 and a pole manufactured within the past 20 years. A suitable background soil was sampled from each poles' vicinity. Old poles had greater concentrations of 2,3,7,8-TCDD equivalents (TEQs) near the pole base and at 25 cm than did newer poles. Surface soil levels of PCP and TCDD-TEQs exceeded both human health and ecological risk-based screening levels, suggesting that millions of similarly treated utility poles in North America might be point sources of PCP and dioxins/furans to soil. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6061508/
The Technology Innovation News Survey welcomes your comments and
suggestions, as well as information about errors for correction. Please
contact Michael Adam of the U.S. EPA Office of Superfund Remediation
and Technology Innovation at adam.michael@epa.gov or (703) 603-9915
with any comments, suggestions, or corrections.
Mention of non-EPA documents, presentations, or papers does not constitute a U.S. EPA endorsement of their contents, only an acknowledgment that they exist and may be relevant to the Technology Innovation News Survey audience.
