Health assessment for Belvidere Municipal Landfill No. 1 National Priorities List (NPL) Site, Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois, Region 5. CERCLIS No. ILD980497663. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Aug 02 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:5307764

The Belvidere Municipal Landfill No. 1 is a National Priorities List site located adjacent to the City of Belvidere in Boone County, Illinois. On-site ground water contains elevated levels of a variety of organic contaminants (volatile organic compounds-VOCs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-PAHs, polychlorinated biphenyls-PCBs), and heavy metals. On-site soils/sediments contain elevated levels of PAHs, PCBs, and heavy metals. Elevated levels of heavy metals were found in the on-site surface waters. Nitrate and nitrite were found at levels of public health concern in the drinking water from the residential wells. In addition, elevated levels of trichloroethylene (TCE) were found in the Spencer Park hand-pumped wells (off-site and probably not site related). ATSDR has concluded that 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. Human exposure to PCBs may be occurring via direct ingestion of or dermal absorption to surface soils. Potential exposure to contaminated edible plants and animals cannot be completely characterized without further sampling and analysis.

• Research Organization: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5307764
• Report Number(s): PB-90-105982/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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