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TABLE 11.10
Proposed Criteria for the Amount Available for Leaching for Some Metals 15

Regulatory Limit
Expressed as

Criteria for Amount Available for Leaching
[mg/wet kg waste]

Amount
Leached
[mg/kg
wet waste]

Leachate
Concentration
[mg/L]

Unrestricted
Utilization

Controlled
Utilization

Segregated
Landfill

Sanitary
Landfill Contaminant

Arsenic
Barium
Cadmium
Chromium
Lead
Mercury

5.0
100.0
1.0
5.0
5.0
0.2

100
2000
20
100
100
4

1
20
0.2
1
1
0.04

5
100
1
5
5
0.2

10
200
2
10
10
0.4

100
2000
20
100
100
4

Regulatory limits for the USEPA TCLP. 107 The factor of 20 between columns 2 and 3 corresponds to
the liquid-to-solid ratio in the leachate test.

Contaminated Land.” This volume contains the proceedings of a conference to
be held in April 2005 in Cambridge, UK, and will be published by A.A. Balkema
Publishers. The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding for STARNET by
the Engineering and Physical Research Council (EPSRC). The authors are also
grateful to the core members of STARNET for their contributions and in particular
to Brian Bone and Leslie Heasman for their contributions to the report.

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