Monitoring of environmental exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a review

Table 14 Median PAH concentrations stratified by residential collection sites for the combined data of the inner-city and suburban census tracts (Mielke et al. 2004)

PAH	Busy streets	Residential streets	Open areas	Foundation samples
A	10	8	2	8
B	6	0	5	9
C	1	4	4	5
D	1	0	3	3
E	133	29	21	77
F	38	8	7	10
G	266	107	82	105
H	237	97	67	78
I	145	41	28	51
J	111	42	32	40
K	319	112	94	105
L	95	34	24	72
M	255	141	144	163
N	322	202	205	233
O	208	126	123	128
P	237	125	122	137
PAH	2,469	1,061	975	1,188
N	8	18	6	6

Units are ng/g. Key for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: A, naphthalene; B, aenaphthylene; C, acenaphthene; D, fluorene; E, phenanthrene; F, anthracene; G, fluroanthene; H, pyrene; I, benz(a)anthracene; J, chrysene; K, benzo(b)fluoranthene; L, benzo(k)fluoranthene; M, benzo(a)pyrene; N, indeno[1,3,3-cd]pyrene; O, dibenz(a,h)anthracene; P, benzo(g,h,i)perylene; total PAHs