Alabama Cleanup Standards for Hydrocarbon Contaminated Groundwater

Product

Parameter/ Constituent

Lab Test Protocol & Number

Detection Level

Notification Level

Action Level

Cleanup Level

Gasoline

 

Benzene

EPA 602, 624, 8021, 8260

*

any amount

5µg/L

5µg/L

Ethylbenzene

EPA 602, 624, 8021, 8260

*

any amount

700µg/L

700µg/L

Toluene

EPA 602, 624, 8021, 8260

*

any amount

1000µg/L

1000µg/L

Xylene

EPA 602, 624, 8021, 8260

*

any amount

10,000µg/L

10,000µg/L

MTBE

EPA 8021, 8260

*

any amount

20µg/L

site specific**

Diesel



 

PAH

EPA 610, 625, 8310, 8100, 8270

*

any amount

site specific**

site specific**

BTEX

EPA 602, 624, 8021, 8260

*

any amount

same as gasoline

same as gasoline

Waste Oil

 

BTEX

EPA Method 602, 624, 8021, 8260

*

any amount

same as gasoline

same as gasoline

PAH

EPA Method 610, 625, 8310, 8100, 8270

*

any amount

same as diesel

same as diesel

Lead

EPA 239.2, 7420, 7421

*

any amount

15µg/L

site specific

*Dictated by Method.

** Health Advisory Limits.

Note: Risk assessment may be utilized to allow for an alternate corrective action limit. The UST program has developed
a risk-based program for alternate corrective action limits at UST release sites.

Contact: Dorothy Malaier, Alabama Department of Environmental Management, 334-270-5613

E-mail: dsm@adem.state.al.us

Web site: http://www.adem.state.al.us



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