Public health assessment for Sherwin Williams, Emeryville, Alameda County, California, Region 9: CERCLIS number CAD03934601. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:6406101

The Sherwin-Williams facility is located on Sherwin Avenue in Emeryville, California. Emeryville is located on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay between Berkeley to the north, and Oakland to the east and south. Several site investigations have determined that the primary contaminants on the site include volatile organic chemicals, semi-volatile organic chemicals, petroleum hydrocarbons, and metals (primarily arsenic and lead). Currently, the areas with contaminated soils have been covered with an asphalt cap, and the area with the most heavily contaminated groundwater has been enclosed with a slurry wall to reduce or prevent the migration of contaminated groundwater. A groundwater extraction and treatment system is operating with the goal of creating an inward hydraulic gradient across the slurry wall, thereby preventing arsenic and lead contaminated groundwater from migrating off site. CDHS has concluded, assuming a worst-case scenario of daily exposure to the most contaminated soils for a period of greater than one year, that past levels of arsenic and lead and near the Artists' cooperative property posed a public health hazard for both non-cancer and cancer health effects. However, with the cleanup of the Garden Area on the Coop property and the flower beds along Horton Street adjacent to the 45th Street building and the Coop Annex/Horton Street Lofts, there is no longer a public health threat due to exposure to contaminants from these areas.

• Research Organization: California Dept. of Health Services, Sacramento, CA (United States); Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (United States); California Dept. of Health Services, Berkeley, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6406101
• Report Number(s): PB-99-155590/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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