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| Title | Chemical Analysis of Sediments Adjacent to the Canby Road Tire Fire. Memo to Thom Hooper, WA State Dept of Fish & Wildlife. | |||
| Month-Year Published | July 1996 | |||
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| Short Description |
Twenty-four sediment samples were analyzed for total petroleum hydrocarbons, with four of these being screened for 13 metals, cyanide, and 75 base/neutral/acid compounds. Detection of hydrocarbons matching oil leaking from the tire fire was limited to the three samples collected inside the inner containment boom (13.0 - 38.0 mg/Kg: parts per million) and one of four samples collected within the outer boom (2.0 mg/Kg). (Also see abstract below) | |||
| Publication Number | 96-e09 | |||
| Author(s) | Johnson, A. and D. Serdar | |||
| Print Availability |
Not maintained in stock. Copy must be made from archive version.
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| Number of pages | 14 pp. + app (25 total) | |||
| Keywords | chemical, chromium, copper, cyanide, fish, hydrocarbons, lead, metals, petroleum, Puget Sound, sediment, zinc | |||
| Subject Waterbodies |
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| Abstract | Long Description |
Twenty-four sediment samples were analyzed for total petroleum hydrocarbons, with four of these being screened for 13 metals, cyanide, and 75 base/neutral/acid compounds. Detection of hydrocarbons matching oil leaking from the tire fire was limited to the three samples collected inside the inner containment boom (13.0 - 38.0 mg/Kg: parts per million) and one of four samples collected within the outer boom (2.0 mg/Kg). Zinc, copper, chromium, nickel, lead, and arsenic concentrations were 2 - 7 times higher in the boomed sediments than in a control sample but did not exceed Puget Sound sediment standards. Cyanide was not detectable. Phenols, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and several other organic compounds exceeded Puget Sound standards, but only within the boomed sediments. Substituted benzenes and naphthalenes, benzothiazoles, and nitriles were also tentatively identified in the heavily oiled sediment of the inner boom and are potentially toxic. |
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