Health assessment for Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, Lake City, Jackson County, Missouri, Region 7. CERCLIS No. MO3213890012. Preliminary report

Technical Report · Thu Jan 19 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5266802

The Lake City Army Ammunition Plant site is on the National Priorities List. Except for a five-year period, the government-owned but contractor-operated small arms ammunition plant has operated since 1941. A total of 73 past or present waste-disposal or contaminant-release sites, among them sand pits, blackline lagoons, industrial waste water-treatment plant, oil and solvent disposal area, burn pits/lagoons and trench area, chemical laboratory waste site, and the old landfill, are suspected of receiving, and have been investigated for, hazardous waste. The environmental contaminants of concern are: beryllium, arsenic, cadmium, lead, zinc, chromium, mercury, copper, cyclotetramethylene tetranitramine (HMX), trichloroethylene, 1,1-dichloroethylene, 1,2-dichloroethylene, vinyl chloride, perchloroethylene, toluene, 2,4-dinitrotoluene in ground water; and trichloroethylene, pentachlorophenol, dichloroethane, 1,3-dinitrobenzene, 2,4-dinitrotoluene, and HMX in surface water. The site is considered to be of potential public health concern because of the risk to human health caused by the possibility of exposure to hazardous substances via contaminated ground water and surface water. There are no data with which to evaluate the soil, sediment, and air pathways, and these may be important. Additional data are needed in these areas.

• Research Organization: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5266802
• Report Number(s): PB-90-112103/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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