Health assessment for PJP Landfill, Judson County, Jersey City, New Jersey, Region 2. CERCLIS No. NJD980505648. Preliminary report

Technical Report · Tue Oct 11 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:7003680

The PJP Landfill site is listed on the National Priorities List. The approximately 87-acre site may have been used since 1968 to dispose of an unknown quantity of chemical and industrial wastes. The State certified the landfill to receive hazardous wastes in 1971. The site presently is closed. On-site environmental contamination consists of chromium (40 ppb), phenols (33,000 ppb), various pesticides (up to 7,000 ppb), and volatile organics (up to 9,000 ppb) in ground water; and benzene (27 ppb), chlorobenzene (33 ppb), and lead (500 ppb) in leachate in the ditch. 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 surface water.

• Research Organization: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7003680
• Report Number(s): PB-90-137571/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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