Public health assessment for Ionia City Landfill, Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan, Region 5. Cerclis No. MID980794416. Final report
The Ionia City Landfill site, on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) National Priorities List, was owned and operated by the City of Ionia as a landfill from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, and accepted both industrial and municipal waste. The site poses an indeterminate public health hazard because of the lack of surface soil data and the potential for human exposure via direct contact with site soils, inhalation of fugitive dusts, or inhalation of volatile organic compounds. With future erosion of the site, buried wastes may become exposed and human exposure may occur through direct contact, ingestion, or inhalation of volatile chemicals. The chemicals found on the site include a number of proven, probable, and potential human carcinogens. This assessment recommends increased restriction of access to the site, further characterization of the contamination on the site, implementation of institutional controls on use of the contaminated groundwater, and the clean-up of contaminated groundwater.
- Research Organization:
- Michigan Dept. of Public Health, Lansing, MI (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 121930
- Report Number(s):
- PB--95-267647/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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