Health assessment for Velsicol Chemical Corporation NPL (National Priorities List) Site, Marshall, Clark County, Illinois, Region 5. CERCLIS No. ILD000814673. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Jan 12 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5253332

The Velsicol Chemical Corporation is a National Priorities List site located in Clark County, Illinois. Petroleum products (i.e., resins) or technical-grade chlordane has been produced at the site since the 1930s. Because of past disposal practices, contaminants are present in both on-site and off-site environmental media. Elevated concentrations of volatile organic chemicals and pesticides (either chlordane, heptachlor, or heptachlor epoxide) were detected in on-site ground water, surface soils, unnamed tributary (creek) sediments, and disposal pond sediments. Elevated concentrations of site-related pesticides (chlordane, heptachlor, or heptachlor epoxide) were detected in off-site agricultural soils, unnamed tributary sediments, and fish tissues (fillets). In addition, residues of other pesticides (aldrin and dieldrin) were found in agricultural soil. The site is of potential public health concern because of the risk to human health resulting from possible exposure to hazardous substances at concentrations that may result in adverse human health effects.

• Research Organization: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5253332
• Report Number(s): PB-90-106659/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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