Canadian Council of Ministers
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de l'environnement

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Beryllium


Parameter 1: INORGANIC
Parameter 3: Metals

Water Quality for the Protection of Aquatic Life

Freshwater

Concentration (µg/L)

No data

Date

No data

Marine

Concentration (µg/L)

No data

Date

No data

Water Quality for the Protection of Agriculture

Irrigation

Concentration (µg/L)

100

No fact sheet created. For more information on this guideline, please refer to Canadian Water Quality Guidelines (CCREM 1987).

Date

1987

Livestock

Concentration (µg/L)

100

No fact sheet created. For more information on this guideline, please refer to Canadian Water Quality Guidelines (CCREM 1987).

Interim guideline.

Date

1987

Sediment Quality for the Protection of Aquatic Life

Freshwater

Concentration (µg/kg dry weight) - ISQG

No data

Concentration (µg/kg dry weight) - PEL

No data

Date

No data

Marine

Concentration (µg/kg dry weight) - ISQG

No data

Concentration (µg/kg dry weight) - PEL

No data

Date

No data

Soil Quality for the Protection of Environmental and Human Health

Concentration (mg/kg dry weight) - Agricultural

4

Data are sufficient and adequate to calculate only a Soil Quality Guideline for Human Health (SQGHH). It is greater than the corresponding interim soil quality criteria (CCME 1991). Therefore the interim soil quality criterion is retained as the soil quality guideline for this land use.

Concentration (mg/kg dry weight) - Residential / parkland

4

Data are sufficient and adequate to calculate only a Soil Quality Guideline for Human Health (SQGHH). It is greater than the corresponding interim soil quality criteria (CCME 1991). Therefore the interim soil quality criterion is retained as the soil quality guideline for this land use.

Concentration (mg/kg dry weight) - Commercial

8

Data are sufficient and adequate to calculate only a Soil Quality Guideline for Human Health (SQGHH). It is greater than the corresponding interim soil quality criteria (CCME 1991). Therefore the interim soil quality criterion is retained as the soil quality guideline for this land use.

Concentration (mg/kg dry weight) - Industrial

8

Data are sufficient and adequate to calculate only a Soil Quality Guideline for Human Health (SQGHH). It is greater than the corresponding interim soil quality criteria (CCME 1991). Therefore the interim soil quality criterion is retained as the soil quality guideline for this land use.

Date

2015

Tissue Residue Quality for the Protection of Widlife Consumer of Aquatic Biota

Concentration (µg/kg diet wet weight)

No data

Date

No data