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    BS 8576 - GUIDANCE ON INVESTIGATIONS FOR GROUND GAS - PERMANENT GASES AND VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCS)

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Superseded date:  30-04-2013

    Language(s):  English

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    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    Foreword
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Terms and definitions
    4 General
    5 Health and safety
    6 Development of preliminary conceptual model
       and preliminary risk assessment
    7 Setting objectives
    8 Developing the investigation strategy
    9 Field work - permanent ground gases
    10 Field work - VOCs
    11 Monitoring and sampling reports
    12 Quality assurance
    13 Refining the conceptual model
    14 Report on the investigation
    Annexes
    Annex A (informative) - Regulation of land
            contamination
    Annex B (informative) - Radon
    Annex C (informative) - Anaerobic degradation
            and the formation of methane and carbon
            dioxide
    Annex D (informative) - Background
    Annex E (informative) - Sampling protocols -
            Permanent gases
    Annex F (informative) - Assessment of whether
            sufficient gas monitoring data have been
            collected
    Annex G (informative) - Apparatus for measurement
            of gas-flow rate
    Annex H (informative) - Portable equipment for
            measurement of concentrations of permanent
            gases
    Annex I (informative) - Installation and sampling
            train leakage tests
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    Comment Closes On
    Committee EH/4
    Document Type Draft
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Superseded
    Superseded By

    Standards Referencing This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    BS ISO 11665-1 : 2012 MEASUREMENT OF RADIOACTIVITY IN THE ENVIRONMENT - AIR: RADON-222 - PART 1: ORIGINS OF RADON AND ITS SHORT-LIVED DECAY PRODUCTS AND ASSOCIATED MEASUREMENT METHODS
    BS ISO 10381-3:2001 Soil quality. Sampling Guidance on safety
    BS EN ISO 14688-1 : 2002 GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION AND TESTING - IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL - PART 1: IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION
    BS EN ISO 16017-1:2001 Indoor, ambient and workplace air. Sampling and analysis of volatile organic compounds by sorbent tube/thermal desorption/capillary gas chromatography Pumped sampling
    API 4741 : 2005 COLLECTING AND INTERPRETING SOIL GAS SAMPLES FROM THE VADOSE ZONE - A PRACTICAL STRATEGY FOR ASSESSING THE SUBSURFACE VAPOR-TO-INDOOR AIR MIGRATION PATHWAY AT PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON SITES
    BS ISO 11074:2005 Soil quality. Vocabulary
    BS EN ISO 14689-1:2003 Geotechnical investigation and testing. Identification and classification of rock. Identification and description
    BS EN ISO 14688-2 : 2004 GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION AND TESTING - IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL - PRINCIPLES FOR A CLASSIFICATION
    BS EN ISO 16017-2:2003 Indoor, ambient and workplace air. Sampling and analysis of volatile organic compounds by sorbent tube/thermal desorption/capillary gas chromatography Diffusive sampling
    BS 10175(2011) : 2011 INVESTIGATION OF POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED SITES - CODE OF PRACTICE
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