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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2013 Jul 25;47(15):8591–8598. doi: 10.1021/es401532q

Table 1.

Modeled and depuration PCB 28 RS for each depuration compound sample. RS and γ reported for sample-specific fit, multiple linear regression, and mean values. A median value for γ of 0.076 is suggested from all samples.

Average Model
RS (m3 d−1)
Site Sampling
Period		 Sample
Specific
γ		 MLR γ Depuration
RS (m3 d−1)		 Using Median
γ
(0.076)		 Using
MLR
γ
Dewey 1/17 – 2/26 0.06 0.07 5.00 6.43 6.06
Dawes 2/22 – 4/11 0.08 0.07 5.53 5.55 5.31
Corkery 4/18 – 5/16 0.09 0.06 5.94 5.13 4.28
Gresham 5/16 – 7/31 0.08 0.11 3.84 3.87 5.63
Chase 6/30 – 8/11 0.19 0.18 6.79 2.66 6.28
St. Elizabeth 8/11 – 9/19 0.10 0.09 5.67 4.55 5.52
Webster 11/13 – 12/19 0.06 0.06 5.06 6.51 4.81
Mean 0.09 0.09 5.40 4.96 5.41