Health assessment for Broward County Landfill (Aka Davie Landfill), Davie, Broward County, Florida, Region 4. CERCLIS No. FLD980602288. Preliminary report

Technical Report · Mon Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:6984484

The Broward Count Landfill (aka Davie Landfill, South Broward Landfill, and Broward County Solid Waste Disposal Facility), which began operations in 1964, is located 10 miles southwest of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The site consists of a 48-acre solid waste landfill, a 68-acre sanitary landfill and a 4-acre sludge lagoon. The solid waste landfill was used to dispose of the municipal solid waste being incinerated at the on-site incinerator. Ammonia, chlorides, sulfate, nitrates, and iron were found in the surface water (borrow pits) on-site. Sludge from the lagoon was found to contain cyanide. Soils on-site have been contaminated with a variety of compounds related to previous landfill activities. The groundwater on-site and downgradient of the site shows elevated levels of sulfate, chloride, lead, and ammonia. Benzene, vinyl chloride, and some unidentified compounds have been detected in monitoring wells and private wells to the south of the landfill. 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 on-site ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact exposures to contaminants present in soil, groundwater, surface water, sediments, and air and off-site ingestion, inhalation, and direct contact exposures to contaminants present in groundwater.

• Research Organization: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6984484
• Report Number(s): PB-90-140591/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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