Public health assessment for Hunts Disposal Caledonia, Racine County, Wisconsin, Region 5. CERCLIS No. WID980511919. Final report
The Hunts Disposal Landfill (HDL), also known as the Caledonia Landfill, is in a rural agricultural area of southeastern Wisconsin, near the City of Racine. HDL accepted municipal and industrial waste from 1959 until 1974. When it closed, the unlined landfill was capped with permeable material. Groundwater, surface water, and sediment are contaminated with several metals and volatile organic compounds. Surface soils are contaminated with lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The Hunts Disposal Landfill poses no apparent public health hazard at the current time since levels in soil are not expected to result in health effects. Contaminated soil poses the most likely environmental pathway for human exposure. Activities such as eating or smoking, after contact with contaminated soils, could result in ingestion exposure. Future exposure from contaminated groundwater could result if there is no remedial action to prevent that exposure.
- Research Organization:
- Wisconsin Div. of Health, Madison, WI (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 6243911
- Report Number(s):
- PB-93-208924/XAB
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: See also PB--90-109083
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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PUBLIC HEALTH
RISK ASSESSMENT
SANITARY LANDFILLS
AGRICULTURE
AROMATICS
CONTAMINATION
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY
GROUND WATER
HEALTH HAZARDS
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INGESTION
LAND POLLUTION
METALS
MUNICIPAL WASTES
POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS
REMEDIAL ACTION
RURAL AREAS
SEDIMENTS
SOILS
TOXICITY
WATER POLLUTION
WISCONSIN
CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ELEMENTS
HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
HAZARDS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INTAKE
MANAGEMENT
NORTH AMERICA
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
USA
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
WATER
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Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-)