AEHS's 2003
Survey of States' Soil and Groundwater Cleanup
Standards
Welcome to the Association for
Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS') 13th survey of
states' cleanup standards for hydrocarbon-contaminated soils
and groundwater. We began the survey in 1990 in response to
the EPA's final rules for regulating underground storage
tanks. The survey was conducted on an annual basis from 1990
until 2001 and will continue every two years as we found that
the standards are not changing that frequently. We hope this
survey to continues to be a meaningful tool for environmental
professionals concerned with hydrocarbon contaminated
groundwater and soils.
Regulators from each of the 50
states and the District of Columbia contributed their most
recent cleanup standards for soil and groundwater. The
programs of each state tend to differ and therefore the format
of each set of information can be different. It should also
be noted that the survey was done in September of 2003 and
standards could change as early as the beginning of 2004.
Because of this we recommend contacting the state before
citing this information. In fact, some states, such as
Connecticut and Indiana, have standards that cannot be put
into this simple table form. We have included contact
information for these states to contact them directly. Also,
for the first time, Puerto Rico has been contacted to provide
their cleanup standards, but they do not have any official
information to report at this time. They, however, hope to
provide this information in the near future.
AEHS would like to thank all of
the state contacts for their time and effort in helping to
complete this survey. We would like to also thank the
American Petroleum Institute for their support.
For more information contact AEHS
by phone at 413-549-5170, by mail at 150 Fearing Street, Suite
21, Amherst, MA 01002, by FAX at 413-549-0579 or visit our Web
Site at:
http://www.aehs.com.
Click on the map's
state abbreviations to view Cleanup Standards.
Individual state cleanup standards are reported yearly.
To view selected report, please click on a state from the
U.S. map below or by using the provided drop down menu.
Cleanup standards are available for the years 1998 - 2001.
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