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. 2020 Jul 22;17(15):5285. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17155285

Table 1.

Overview of numbers of bulk soil (5–7 cm), soil core (0–30 cm at intervals), and dust samples collected around three U.S. military bases at different times of the year.

Soil Sampling Dust Sampling
Study Area Bulk Soil Sampling Soil Core Sampling PI-SWERL® TRAKER™
Winter Spring/
Summer
Fall Wind-Suspendable Dust Samples Unpaved Road Dust Samples
Lemoore NAS 1/17/17 and 1/18/17
56 bulk soil samples
5/31/17
31 bulk soil samples
9/15/2017
29 bulk soil samples
5/31/17
(4 cores),
9/15/17
(3 cores)
9/15/17
(unpaved areas and roads near sites 1 [N26 and salt pit] and J [including dirt road west of site J]) (13 samples)
9/15/17
(unpaved roads around sites Lemoore [21 Str. north of Jackson Ave.], site 1 [N26], and 21 Str. to Bakersfield) (3 samples)
Edwards AFB 2/2/17
36 bulk soil samples
5/20/17
39 bulk soil samples
9/12/17
19 bulk soil samples
5/20/17
(5 cores),
9/12/17
(2 cores)
9/12/17
(unpaved roads near sites 5, 7, and 8) (3 samples)
9/12/17
(unpaved roads around sites 5 and 7) (3 samples)
29 Palms MCAGCC 1/28/17
43 bulk soil samples
6/10/17 and 6/11/17
60 bulk soil samples
10/13/17 and 10/14/17
76 bulk soil samples
6/10/17 and 6/11/17
(7 cores),
10/13/17 and 10/14/17
(6 cores)
10/13/17
(sites 5–10, and UT) (18 samples)
10/13/17
(unpaved roads between sites 7 and 10) (1 sample)