Interim Ecological Soil Screening Level Documents

The Ecological Soil Screening Level (Eco-SSL) derivation process is used to derive a set of risk-based Eco-SSLs for many of the soil contaminants that are frequently of ecological concern for plants and animals at hazardous waste sites.

The interim Eco-SSL documents for the chemicals listed below provide an overview of the contaminant, separate discussion for each receptor group including a comprehensive list of literature evaluated under the effort, and a summary of data used in deriving Eco-SSL values.  The initial list of documents through Zinc are metal contaminants, and the documents that follow, beginning with DDT and Metabolites, are organic contaminants.

For additional information, see the Ecological Soil Screening Level site.

• Ecological Soil Screening Level for Aluminum, Interim Final (pdf) (296.06 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Antimony, Interim Final (pdf) (445.79 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Arsenic, Interim Final (pdf) (916.87 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Barium, Interim Final (pdf) (722.78 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Beryllium, Interim Final (pdf) (545.24 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Cadmium, Interim Final (pdf) (1.43 MB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Chromium, Interim Final (pdf) (562.15 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Cobalt, Interim Final (pdf) (1018.98 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Copper, Interim Final (pdf) (1.7 MB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Level for Iron, Interim Final (pdf) (438.39 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Lead, Interim Final (pdf) (1.43 MB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Manganese, Interim Final (pdf) (1.43 MB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Nickel, Interim Final (pdf) (829.03 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Selenium, Interim Final (pdf) (1.04 MB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Silver, Interim Final (pdf) (620.59 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Vanadium, Interim Final (pdf) (935.35 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Zinc, Interim Final (pdf) (4.74 MB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for DDT and Metabolites (pdf) (900.83 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Dieldrin, Interim Final (pdf) (786.21 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Pentachlorophenol, Interim Final (pdf) (698.92 KB)
• Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), Interim Final (pdf) (1.72 MB)