Health assessment for York County Solid Waste Landfill, York County, Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, Region 3. CERCLIS No. PAD980830715. Preliminary report

Technical Report · Wed Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6984081

The York County Waste Landfill site is an active unlined landfill which has been in operation since November 1974. Environmental contamination on-site consists of 1,2-dichloroethane (28 ppb), 1,1,1-trichloroethane (11 ppb), methylene chloride (12 ppb), trichlorofluoromethane (8 ppb), dichlorodifluoromethane (68 ppb), toluene (5 ppb), methyl ethyl ketone (140 ppb), acetone (170 ppb), and tetrachloroethylene (12 ppb) in groundwater. 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 groundwater.

• Research Organization: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6984081
• Report Number(s): PB-90-144403/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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