Guidelines for Screening Contaminated Soils

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A collection of tables of soil and groundwater quality guidelines from around the world:

• CLEA UK - Contaminated Land Exposure Assessment used in the United Kingdom

• UK historical guidance: CLEA 2002 (superseded in 12/2006 by CLEA UK), ICRCL (withdrawn 01/2003) and "Kelly" guideline values

• Dutch intervention values

• French guideline values used for contaminated land management

• Swedish environmental quality criteria for contaminated land

• Australian guideline on the investigation levels for soil and groundwater

• Jordplan Sjælland standards used in Zealand and surrounding islands of Denmark

• USA CERCLA/Superfund Act of 1980

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