Delaware Cleanup Standards for Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soil

Product

Parameter/ Constituent

Lab Test Protocol & Number

Tier 0(1)

Action/Cleanup Level*

Gasoline5

TPH GRO

*

100mg/kg

Benzene

*

230µg/kg

BTEX

*

10mg/kg

MTBE2

*

140µg/kg

EDB2

*

10µg/kg

EDC2

*

400µg/kg

Lead2

*

400mg/kg

Kerosene

TPH GRO

*

100mg/kg

 

TPH DRO

*

1000mg/kg

 

Benzene

*

230µg/kg

 

BTEX

*

10mg/kg

 

MTBE2

*

140µg/kg

 

Jet Fuel

TPH GRO

*

100mg/kg

 

TPH DRO

*

1000mg/kg

 

Benzene

*

230µg/kg

 

BTEX

*

10mg/kg

 

MTBE2

*

140µg/kg

 

Diesel

TPH DRO

*

1000mg/kg

 

Heating Fuel

TPH DRO

*

1000mg/kg

 

Used Oil3

TPH GRO

*

100mg/kg

 

TPH DRO

*

1000mg/kg

 

Benzene

*

230µg/kg

 

BTEX

*

10mg/kg

 

Other4

*

site by site basis

 

Aviation Gas

TPH GRO

*

100mg/kg

 

Benzene

*

230µg/kg

 

BTEX

*

10mg/kg

 

MTBE2

*

140µg/kg

 

Lead2

*

400mg/kg

 

EDB2

*

10µg/kg

 

EDC2

*

400µg/kg

 

1 Delaware's Tier 0 applies to all new sites entering the program, such as at removal or abandonment. An existing leaking underground storage tank (LUST) site may enter at Tiers 1,2 or 3, depending on the amount of site-specific data collected. Above Tier 0, TPH-GRO and TPH-DRO are replaced by a list of chemicals of concern.

2 Analysis for MTBE may not require the Department's discretion when conclusive documentation can be presented describing that the tank's period of use ended prior to 1978.  For gasoline UST's only, lead, EDB, and EDC analysis is required unless conclusive documentation is presented and pre-approved by the UST Branch that the gasoline UST was installed after 1/1/88.  Lead, EDB and EDC analysis is always required for aviation gasoline USTS.

3 Used Oil is defined as described in Part A, Section 2, of Delaware's UST Regulations and Delaware's Hazardous Waste Management Branch Regulations.

4 "Other" may mean Metals, Volatiles, Semivolatiles, EDB, EDC, or other as required on a site-specific basis.

* Contact Delaware's UST Branch for required methodologies.

Contact: Patricia M. Ellis, Ph.D., Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control, 302-395-2500

E-mail: pellis@state.de.us



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