AS 4439.

3—1997

Australian Standard
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Wastes, sediments and

contaminated soils

Part 3: Preparation of leachates—

Bottle leaching procedure
 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee CH/35, Examination of Wastes.
It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 30 October 1996
and published on 5 January 1997.

The following interests are represented on Committee CH/35:

Australian Aluminium Council
Australian Government Analytical Laboratories
Australian Lead Development Association
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Brisbane City Council

Bureau of Steel Manufacturers of Australia
Department of Environment and Natural Resources, S.A.
Division of Coal and Energy Technology, CSIRO
Environment Protection Authority of Victoria
Environment Protection Authority of N.S.W.
Government Chemical Laboratory, Queensland
Griffith University
National Association of Testing Authorities
Plastics and Chemicals Industry Association
Sydney Water Corporation
Victorian University of Technology
Victorian Waste Management Association

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 AS 4439.3—1997

Australian Standard
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Wastes, sediments and

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Part 3: Preparation of leachates—

Bottle leaching procedure

PUBLISHED BY STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

(STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA)
1 THE CRESCENT, HOMEBUSH, NSW 2140
ISBN 0 7337 0830 7
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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

First publi shed as AS 4439.3—1997.

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STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

Australian Standard
Wastes, sediments and contaminated soils

Part 3: Preparation of leachates—Bottle leaching procedure

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.

2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS The following documents are referred to in this

Standard:
AS
1152 Specification for test sieves
2162 Verification and use of volumetric apparatus
2162.1 Part 1: General— Volumetric glassware
2163 Laboratory glassware —Measuring cylinders
2243 Safety in laboratories
2243.1 Part 1: General
2243.2 Part 2: Chemical aspects
4439 Wastes sediments and contaminated soils
4439.2 Part 2: Preparation of leachates— Zero headspace procedure
AS/NZS
2243 Safety in laboratories
2243.3 Part 3: Microbiology
ISO
3696 Water for analytical laboratory use—Specification and test methods
ASTM
D1498 Practice for oxidation-reduction potential of water

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