Public health assessment for Plymouth Avenue Landfill, Deland, Volusia County, Florida, Region 4. Cerclis No. FLD984167569. Final report

Technical Report · Wed Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 1994

OSTI ID:6812218

The Plymouth Avenue Landfill is about 1.75 miles west of the City of DeLand in rural western Volusia County, Florida. From 1971 to 1988 it was a Class I landfill and received all types of nonhazardous industrial and municipal solid waste. From June 1978 to October 1980, the landfill reportedly received 4,500 gallons per week of process waste slurry from the Brunswick Corporation. The authors selected the following contaminants of concern: barium, chromium, 1,2-dichloroethene, iron, nitrate, sulfate, and vinyl chloride. Ingestion of ground water is a past completed human exposure pathway. Concentrations of the contaminants of concern found so far are unlikely to have caused illness in the nearby residents. Analysis of water samples has been inadequate, however, to assess the public health threat from ingestion of sulfate, giardia, or vinyl chloride. Based on the information currently available, the authors classify the public health hazard at this landfill as indeterminate. Groundwater sampling is needed to determine the extent of vinyl chloride contamination.

• Research Organization: Florida State Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, FL (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6812218
• Report Number(s): PB-94-213998/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
GROUND WATER
CONTAMINATION
PUBLIC HEALTH
RISK ASSESSMENT
VINYL CHLORIDE
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY
CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS
HALOGENATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
WATER
540250* - Environment
Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-)