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New Vapour Intrusion
Assessment Guidance
Melanie Langille, M.Env.Sc.
RemEAST 2015
November 10, 2015
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Atlantic RBCA Toolkit
Advantages
• Risk-based guidelines
• Can adjust for site-
specific
Challenges
• Sites that don’t meet
conditions for model
• Screening levels are low,
especially for residential
Note: Contamination beneath building
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Atlantic RBCA Soil Vapour
Sampling Guidance (2006)
• Guidance for soil vapour assessment
• Conceptual change: lateral separation
30 m
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So why new guidance…
• New information on PHCs
– Davis 2009
– Lahvis et al. 2013
– US EPA 2013
– ITRC 2014
• Feedback from Site Professionals
– Screening levels
– Keep it simple
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General Approach
Outlined in New
Guidance
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Screening Distances
Contaminant type Vapour Intrusion Screening Distance *
PHCs (BTEX, mTPH) (all cases except as noted below) 5 m
PHCs (BTEX, mTPH) with foc > 0.04 30 m
PHCs (BTEX, mTPH) from ethanol based fuel 30 m
Chlorinated Solvents (PCE and daughter products) 30 m
Other volatile compounds 30 m
For vapour intrusion of PHCs, relatively clean soil is
defined by mTPH concentrations of 100 mg/kg or
less for the purposes of vapour intrusion assessment
*
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General Approach
Outlined in New
Guidance
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Vapour Intrusion Risk?
Buildings Present or Reasonably Foreseen
Within Screening Distance?
No Yes
Concentrations in
Soil and
Groundwater
Meet Indoor Air PSSLsVapour intrusion pathway
screened out
Vapour intrusion pathway
screened out
Exceed Indoor Air
PSSLs
Vapour intrusion pathway
screened out
Vapour intrusion
pathway risk – further
investigation or
remediation required
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General Approach
Outlined in New
Guidance
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Vapour Intrusion Screening Levels
• Receptors:
– Residential/Agricultural
– Commercial/Industrial
• Sample Type
– Indoor Air
– Sub-Slab
– Soil Vapour (>1m from foundation)
• Contaminant:
– BTEX, PHC subfractions, IAR
– Chlorinated solvents
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Index of Additive Risk (mTPH)
COC
Residential/Agricultural
Indoor Air VISLs
(mg/m3)
Site
Concentration
(mg/m3)
Site Conc/VISL
Aromatic >C8-C10 0.20 0.130 0.65
Aromatic >C10-C12 0.20 <0.041 0.10*
Aromatic >C12-C16 0.20 0.150 0.75
Aliphatic >C6-C8 18.4 0.610 0.03
Aliphatic >C8-C10 1.0 0.310 0.31
Aliphatic >C10-C12 1.0 0.100 0.10
Aliphatic >C12-C16 1.0 0.200 0.20
Sum (IAR) 2.14
*Where results are less than the detection limit, conduct calculations on ½ the
detection limit.
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General Approach
Outlined in New
Guidance
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Status
• Internal review of document by Atlantic
PIRI and its Corresponding Members
– October 2015
• Release for Public Review
– Early 2016
• Check for updates
– Atlantic RBCA website www.atlanticrbca.com