Health assessment for National Cash Register Corporation, Millsboro, Delaware, Region 3. CERCLIS No. DED043958388s. Preliminary report

Technical Report · Tue Jul 19 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:7168762

The NCR Corporation (First Freedom Center) site began in 1967 as manufacturing facility for mechanical cash registers and electronic calculating equipment, entailing one unlined pit, three cement-lined storage lagoons, and a waste water treatment plant. The environmental contamination on-site consists of heavy metals (chromium and lead) and chlorinated solvents (tetrachloroethylene and 1,2-dichloroethylene) in groundwater; heavy metals (chromium, lead, mercury, copper, and zinc) and chlorinated solvents (trichloroethylene) in soil. Off-site contamination consists of chlorinated solvents in soil (1,1,1-trichloroethylene and trichloroethylene), surface water (trichloroethylene) and groundwater (trichloroethylene). In addition, fish have been found to be contaminated with trichloroethylene. 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, surface water, and possibility through contamination of the aquatic food chain.

• Research Organization: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7168762
• Report Number(s): PB-90-143686/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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