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Title: Health assessment for Tybouts Corner Land (Tybouts) National Priorities List (NPL) Site, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, Region 3. CERCLIS No. DED000606079. Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6984445

The Tybouts Corner Landfill (Tybouts) National Priorities List site is located in New Castle County, Delaware. The site was originally a sand and gravel pit and was used as a municipal sanitary landfill from December 1968 to July 1971. Industrial wastes were also disposed of there. 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 health effects. Human exposure to VOCs via inhalation of potentially contaminated off-site soil and air and ingestion of and dermal contact with potentially contaminated off-site soil may possibly occur. Human exposure to VOCs via ingestion of, inhalation of, and dermal contact with groundwater, surface water, air and soil may have occurred in the past. Contaminants of concern are: benzene, chloroethane, chloromethane, dichlorodifluoroethane, 1,1-dichloroethane, 1,2-dichloroethane, 1,2-trans-dichloroethylene, 1,2-dichloropropane, fluorotrichloromethane, 2-hexanone, 4-methyl 2-pentanone, styrene, tetrachloroethylene, toluene, trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride, xylenes, 2-butanone, and methylene chloride.

Research Organization:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
OSTI ID:
6984445
Report Number(s):
PB-90-144387/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English