New York Cleanup Standards for Hydrocarbon Contaminated Groundwater

Product

Parameter/ Constituent

Lab Test Protocol & Number

Detection Level

Notification Level

Action Level

Cleanup Level

Gasoline

Benzene

EPA 8021, 8020

1µg/L

any amount

1.0µg/L

*

Ethylbenzene

EPA 8021, 8020

1µg/L

any amount

5µg/L

*

Toluene

EPA 8021, 8020

1µg/L

any amount

5µg/L

*

Xylene

EPA 8021, 8020

2µg/L

any amount

5µg/L

*

MTBE

EPA 8021, 8020

1µg/L

any amount

10µg/L

*

other compounds listed in STARS #1

EPA 8021

compound specific

any amount

compound specific

Action Level, or when not achievable, site specific

Diesel



 

Naphthalene

EPA 8021, 8020

1µg/L or 6µg/L

any amount

10µg/L

*

Anthracene

EPA 8270

8µg/L

any amount

50µg/L

*

Fluorene

EPA 8270

8µg/L

any amount

50µg/L

*

Pyrene

EPA 8270

8µg/L

any amount

50µg/L

*

other compounds listed in STARS #1

EPA 8021 or 8270

compound specific

any amount

compound specific

Action Level, or when not achievable, site specific

Waste Oil

PCBs

EPA 8270

compound specific

 

 

 

Halogenated Organics

EPA 8021

compound specific



 

 



 

see Diesel parameter

 

 

 

 



 

* Action Level or, when not achievable, site specific.

Note: Standards applied for offsite reuse.

Contact: Chris Magee, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, 518-402-9543

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