3—1997
Australian Standard
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PREFACE
This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee CH/35 on the Examination
of Wastes and forms part of a series of Standards prepared to provide a standardized method
to determine the contamination potential of groundwater with inorganic and semivolatile
organic materials from liquid and solid wastes, soils, sediments and sludges.
The terms ‘normative’ and ‘informative’ have been used in this Standard to define the
application of the appendices to which they apply. An ‘informative’ appendix is only for
information and guidance whilst a ‘normative’ appendix is an integral part of the Standard.
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CONTENTS
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1 SCOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4 PRINCIPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5 REAGENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6 APPARATUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7 SAMPLING AND SAMPLE PREPARATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8 PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9 ANALYSIS AND REPORTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10 PRECISION AND EFFECT OF PARTICLE SIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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11 TEST REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
APPENDICES
A SEMI-VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
B LEACHING PROCEDURE FLOWSHEET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
C LEACHATE STORAGE AND PRESERVATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
Australian Standard
Wastes, sediments and contaminated soils
1 SCOPE This Standard provides a method for the preparation of leachates from liquid
and solid wastes, sediments, sludges and soils for assessing the potential of inorganic and
semivolatile organic contamination of groundwater, in a variety of disposal-to-land scenarios.
It deals only with the preparation of the leachate and does not describe procedures prior to
submitting samples to the laboratory for analysis or sub-sampling. The range of analyte
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compounds includes, but is not limited to, those compounds with a vapour pressure in the
range 10−1 mm Hg to 10−7 mm Hg and with a boiling point greater than 150°C.
NOTE: A list of analyte compounds is given in Appendix A.
The procedure is not applicable to encapsulated wastes which cannot be reduced to the
specified maximum particle size without breaking the integrity of encapsulation.
The pH and the oxidation-reduction (redox) potential, or Eh, of a leaching fluid may vary
with each disposal environment and is known to affect the leaching of metals and possibly
some organic species. No provision is made in this procedure, however, to control pH and
E h during leaching. As an aid to interpretation of results, it is recommended that the Eh of the
extracted sample liquid and the solids leachate be measured and reported.
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