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SGV Reports and supplementary information for specific chemicals and groups of chemicals are available for download below.
It is recommended that professionals using SGV Reports are familiar with the information in the framework reports (see below). SGV Reports published before 2009 have been withdrawn. They were prepared using previous framework guidance (R&D Publications CLR7 – 10) published in 2002, which have been superseded.
Introduction to Soil Guideline Values
- Human health toxicological assessment of contaminants in soil (Science Report Final SC050021/SR2) (PDF, 718KB)
This report describes the technical principles and framework the EA use to derive Health Criteria Values. - Updated technical background to the CLEA model (Science Report Final SC050021/SR3) (PDF, 1.60MB)
This report describes the technical background to the CLEA model. It also sets out the underlying assumptions that the EA have made to predict exposure for three standard land use scenarios (residential, allotments and commercial).
Heavy metals and other inorganic compounds
- Soil Guideline Value for arsenic in soil (PDF, 385 KB)
- Soil Guideline Value for nickel in soil (PDF, 139 KB) This report has been withdrawn
- Soil Guideline Value for mercury in soil (PDF, 220 KB) This report has been withdrawn
- Soil Guideline Values for selenium in soil (PDF, 150 KB)
- Soil Guideline Values for cadmium in soil (PDF, 188 KB)
BTEX
- Soil Guideline Value for benzene in soil (PDF, 365KB)
- Soil Guideline Value for toluene in soil (PDF, 437KB)
- Soil Guideline Value for ethylbenzene in soil (PDF, 363KB)
- Soil Guideline Value for xylene in soil (PDF, 740KB)
Dioxins
Other organic compounds
Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs
Heavy metals and other inorganic compounds
- Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs for arsenic (PDF, 2.33 MB)
- Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs for nickel (PDF, 2.4 MB) This report has been withdrawn
- Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs for mercury (PDF, 2.41 MB) This report has been withdrawn
- Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs for selenium (PDF, 2.36 MB)
- Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs for cadmium (PDF, 2.39 MB)
BTEX
- Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs for benzene (PDF, 2.32 MB)
- Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs for toluene (PDF, 2.32 MB)
- Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs for ethylbenzene (PDF, 1.03MB)
- Supplementary information for the derivation of SGVs for xylene (PDF, 2.35 MB)