Portsmouth Background
Background concentrations for inorganic and selected organic chemicals soil and groundwater
This table is reproduced from the Background Investigation Report and more recent Quadrant CAS/CMS Reports.
| Analyte | Background Value |
||
|---|---|---|---|
soil background (mg/kg) |
gallia background (ug/l) |
berea background (ug/l) |
|
| Aluminum | 15314 |
--- |
--- |
| Antimony | --- |
36.5 |
39.5 |
| Arsenic | 31 |
92 |
12 |
| Barium | 181 |
151 |
4011 |
| Benzene | --- |
--- |
10.5 |
| Beryllium | 1.4 |
6.5 |
7 |
| Boron | --- |
--- |
--- |
| Cadmium | 2 |
6.5 |
7 |
| Calcium | 1465 |
--- |
--- |
| Chromium | 28.6 |
21 |
17.5 |
| Cobalt | 28.2 |
13 |
91 |
| Copper | 32.6 |
21 |
22.5 |
| Cyanide, total | 2.5 |
10.5 |
10.5 |
| Ethylbenzene | --- |
--- |
1.2 |
| Fluoride | 9.5 |
410 |
4212 |
| Iron | 51180 |
--- |
--- |
| Lead | 34 |
16 |
10 |
| Lithium | 35 |
--- |
--- |
| Magnesium | 4742 |
--- |
--- |
| Manganese | 2012 |
--- |
--- |
| Mercury | 0.048 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
| Nickel | 34 |
30.5 |
840 |
| Potassium | 1902 |
--- |
--- |
| Selenium | 3 |
10.5 |
10.5 |
| Silver | 2.5 |
10.5 |
11 |
| Sodium | 63 |
--- |
--- |
| Thallium | 2.5 |
10.5 |
21.5 |
| Tin | --- |
36.5 |
39.5 |
| Toluene | --- |
--- |
27 |
| Uranium, total | 4.8 |
1000 |
1000 |
| Vanadium | 50.2 |
41 |
12.5 |
| Xylenes | --- |
--- |
7.9 |
| Zinc | 101 |
106 |
115 |