Health assessment for Heleva Landfill National Priorities List (NPL) Site, North Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Region 3. CERCLIS No. PAD980537716. Final report

Technical Report · Mon Apr 17 04:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:7169021

The Heleva Landfill site is in North Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The site has operated as a sanitary landfill and accepted undetermined types and amounts of industrial wastes including solvents. Wastes were deposited in and around two abandoned mining pits. The site is of public health concern because of the risk to human health resulting from probable exposure to hazardous substances at concentrations that may result in adverse human health effects through ingestion, inhalation, or dermal contact. Contaminants, principally volatile organic compounds (VOCs), have been detected at levels of potential concern in groundwater off-site, in some water supply wells, in air, and in surface water. Groundwater is the principal contaminated medium of concern. Human exposure to VOCs and lead is currently occurring via groundwater at some of the area residential groundwater supply wells through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact. The public water system is being extended to these residents and other potentially affected groundwater users.

• Research Organization: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7169021
• Report Number(s): PB-90-144023/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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