Health assessment for Montclair/West Orange Radium Site, Montclair/West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, Region 2. Cerclis No. NJD980785653. Final report
This Public Health Assessment analyzes the potential for adverse health effects as a result of contamination present at the Montclair/West Orange/Glen Ridge (MWG) radium contamination site. Two hundred thirty-six out of 747 homes which were screened in the three study areas are contaminated with radioactive material (i.e., radon 222, radium-226) resulting in above background levels of alpha and/or gamma radiation. Some homes in the Montclair site contain building materials contaminated with radium-226/thorium-230. The ATSDR and the NJDOH consider the MWG site to be a public health hazard in the past to residents of homes containing elevated radiation levels and to the residents of Glen Ridge who frequented Barrow`s Field, and an indeterminate public health hazard in the past and the present for the residents of homes in the study areas that have not yet been screened for elevated radiation levels.
- Research Organization:
- New Jersey State Dept. of Health, Trenton, NJ (United States). Environmental Health Service
- OSTI ID:
- 121884
- Report Number(s):
- PB--95-256327/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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