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Title: Public health assessment for Hunts Disposal Caledonia, Racine County, Wisconsin, Region 5. CERCLIS No. WID980511919. Final report

Abstract

The Hunts Disposal Landfill (HDL), also known as the Caledonia Landfill, is in a rural agricultural area of southeastern Wisconsin, near the City of Racine. HDL accepted municipal and industrial waste from 1959 until 1974. When it closed, the unlined landfill was capped with permeable material. Groundwater, surface water, and sediment are contaminated with several metals and volatile organic compounds. Surface soils are contaminated with lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The Hunts Disposal Landfill poses no apparent public health hazard at the current time since levels in soil are not expected to result in health effects. Contaminated soil poses the most likely environmental pathway for human exposure. Activities such as eating or smoking, after contact with contaminated soils, could result in ingestion exposure. Future exposure from contaminated groundwater could result if there is no remedial action to prevent that exposure.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Wisconsin Div. of Health, Madison, WI (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6243911
Report Number(s):
PB-93-208924/XAB
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: See also PB--90-109083
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANITARY LANDFILLS; AGRICULTURE; AROMATICS; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; GROUND WATER; HEALTH HAZARDS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; INGESTION; LAND POLLUTION; METALS; MUNICIPAL WASTES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REMEDIAL ACTION; RURAL AREAS; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION; WISCONSIN; CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELEMENTS; HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; HAZARDS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INTAKE; MANAGEMENT; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; USA; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; WATER; 540250* - Environment, Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-)

Citation Formats

. Public health assessment for Hunts Disposal Caledonia, Racine County, Wisconsin, Region 5. CERCLIS No. WID980511919. Final report. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
. Public health assessment for Hunts Disposal Caledonia, Racine County, Wisconsin, Region 5. CERCLIS No. WID980511919. Final report. United States.
. 1993. "Public health assessment for Hunts Disposal Caledonia, Racine County, Wisconsin, Region 5. CERCLIS No. WID980511919. Final report". United States.
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abstractNote = {The Hunts Disposal Landfill (HDL), also known as the Caledonia Landfill, is in a rural agricultural area of southeastern Wisconsin, near the City of Racine. HDL accepted municipal and industrial waste from 1959 until 1974. When it closed, the unlined landfill was capped with permeable material. Groundwater, surface water, and sediment are contaminated with several metals and volatile organic compounds. Surface soils are contaminated with lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The Hunts Disposal Landfill poses no apparent public health hazard at the current time since levels in soil are not expected to result in health effects. Contaminated soil poses the most likely environmental pathway for human exposure. Activities such as eating or smoking, after contact with contaminated soils, could result in ingestion exposure. Future exposure from contaminated groundwater could result if there is no remedial action to prevent that exposure.},
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year = {Mon Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
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