Development of the Ontario Provincial Sediment Quality Guidelines for the PCBs and the organochlorine pesticides

Abstract

This document details the derivation of the Provincial Sediment Quality Guidelines for PCBs and the organochlorine compounds, and summarizes the data used to derive these values. The document also summarizes the fate of the organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in sediments and provides the necessary details of the calculations of the sediment quality guidelines.