Ecological Assessment of Storm Impacts

Data Collection

Phenanthrene

Basic Information

Synonym(s): phenanthracene
Formula: C₁₄H₁₀
Molecular Weight: 178.233
Boiling Point (°C): 340
Melting Point (°C): 99.5
Contaminant Type: Phenanthrene is a polyclyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.
Notes: MONOCLINIC PLATES FROM ALCOHOL; COLORLESS SHINING CRYSTALS; LEAFLETS

Solubility (in water)

• Solubility: 1.15E+00 mg/kg ^ao
  Temperature (°C): 25
  

• Solubility: 1.00E+00 mg/kg ^ao
  Temperature (°C): 25
  

• Solubility: 1.60E+00 mg/kg ^ao
  Temperature (°C): 29
  

• Solubility: 1.18E-04 g/100ml ^d
  

• Solubility: 4.20E-01 mg/l ^ak
  Temperature (°C): 8.5
  

• Solubility: 8.20E-01 mg/l ^ak
  Temperature (°C): 21
  

• Solubility: 1.30E+00 mg/l ^ak
  Temperature (°C): 30
  

• Solubility: 1.29E+00 mg/l ^an
  Temperature (°C): 25
  

Half-Life (in soil unless otherwise noted)

• t1/2: 16-200 days ^f
  Environment: Based upon aerobic soil die-away test data
  

• t1/2: 26 days ^ak
  Environment: in a soil system at initial conc of 2 mg/kg
  

• t1/2: 8000000 days ^an
  Environment: by oxidation
  

• t1/2: 24 months ^ak
  Temperature (°C): 20
  Environment: abiotic degradation in sandy loam in the dark at 700 mg/kg
  

• t1/2: 3 months ^ak
  Temperature (°C): 20
  Environment: biodegradation in sandy loam in the dark at 700 mg/kg
  

Toxicity Effects

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Scientific Name: Artemia salina
  Toxicity: 0.2; 0.3; 0.5 mg/l
  Test: 24h EC50
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Scientific Name: Artemia salina
  Toxicity: > 6.7 mg/l
  Test: 3h LC50
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Scientific Name: Artemia spp
  Toxicity: 0.7 mg/l
  Test: 48h LC50
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Common Name: Daphnia
  Scientific Name: Daphnia magna
  Toxicity: 0.45 mg/l
  Test: 2h LC50
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Common Name: Daphnia
  Scientific Name: Daphnia magna
  Toxicity: 0.2; 0.7; 1.2 mg/l
  Test: 48h LC50
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Common Name: Daphnia
  Scientific Name: Daphnia pulex
  Toxicity: 734 µg/l
  Test: 2d IC50
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Common Name: Daphnia
  Scientific Name: Daphnia pulex
  Toxicity: > 1.1 mg/l
  Test: 48h LC50
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Common Name: Daphnia
  Scientific Name: Daphnia pulex
  Toxicity: 0.1 mg/l
  Test: 96h LC50
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Common Name: Daphnia
  Scientific Name: Daphnia pulex
  Life Stage: Neonates
  Toxicity: < 0.11 mg/l
  Test: NOEC, growth
  Formulation: neonates lifetime
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Common Name: Daphnia
  Scientific Name: Daphnia pulex
  Life Stage: Neonates
  Toxicity: 0.11 mg/l
  Test: NOEC, reproduction
  Formulation: neonates lifetime
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Scientific Name: Neanthes arenaceodentata
  Toxicity: 0.6 mg/l
  Test: 96h LC50
  Temperature (°C): 22
  Formulation: in seawater
  

• Organism Type: Crustaceans ^ak
  Common Name: Estuarine Mud Crab
  Scientific Name: Rhithropanopeus harrisii
  Life Stage: Zoea
  Toxicity: 0.15 mg/l
  Test: 1w NOLC
  Notes: Megalops (at age 1)

• Organism Type: Fish ^ak
  Common Name: Largemouth bass
  Scientific Name: Micropterus salmoides
  Life Stage: Eggs through 4 days after hatching
  Toxicity: 0.18 mg/l
  Test: 1w LC50
  

• Organism Type: Fish ^ak
  Common Name: Columbia River redband trout
  Scientific Name: Salmo gairdneri
  Life Stage: Eggs through 4 days after hatching
  Toxicity: 0.04 mg/l
  Test: 4w LC50
  

• Organism Type: Fish ^ak
  Common Name: Columbia River redband trout
  Scientific Name: Salmo gairdneri
  Life Stage: Egg
  Toxicity: (+/-) 0.03 mg/l
  Test: NOEC, hatchability, survival
  

Soil Organic Carbon/Water Partition Coefficients

• Koc: 1400 ^ak
  Formulation: "for Fullerton soil, 0.06% organic carbon"
  

• Koc: 5900 ^ak
  Formulation: "for Apison soil, 0.11% organic carbon"
  

• Koc: 5800 ^ak
  Formulation: for Dormont soil 1.2% organic carbon
  

• Koc: Log Koc: 4.15 ^ay
  

Octanol-Water Partition Coefficients

• Log Kow: 4.45 - 4.57 ^aj
  

• Log Kow: Kow: 28200 ^ao
  

• Log Kow: 4.46 ^ay
  

• Log Kow: 4.46 ^an
  

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