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Title: Health assessment for Welsh Road/Barkman Landfill, Honey Brook, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Region 3. CERCLIS No. PAD980829527. Preliminary report

Abstract

The Welsh Road/Barkman Landfill site in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania was an unpermitted residential and commercial refuse disposal facility that operated from 1963 to sometime in the 1980s. After 1977, the landfill continued to operate in defiance of legal action to support a closure plan. Various investigations conducted in the 1980s revealed that industrial and hazardous waste had been accepted by the site. The environmental contamination on-site consists of copper, lead, 1,2-dichloropropane, toluene, chloroform and methylene chloride in drummed wastes; and mercury, toluene, dichlorofluoromethane, methylene chloride, trichlorofluoromethane, 5-methyl-2-hexanone, trichloroethylene, 1,2-dichloroethane, and 1,3,5-cycloheptatriene in groundwater. One time sampling indicated the presence of volatile compounds in air (hydrogen chloride and chloroform). The environmental contamination off-site consists of cadmium in sediment; and chloromethane, chloroform, xylenes, dichlorofluoromethane, 1,1-dichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, p-cresol, toluene, methyl isobutyl ketone, di-n-butyl phthalate, lead, mercury, and zinc in residential well water. 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, soil, sediment, and airborne gases, vapors, and particulate.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
7168985
Report Number(s):
PB-90-144700/XAB
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; GROUND WATER; CONTAMINATION; PENNSYLVANIA; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS; SUPERFUND; WATER WELLS; AIR POLLUTION; CADMIUM; CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; CHLOROFORM; COPPER; CRESOLS; HEALTH HAZARDS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; LAND POLLUTION; LEAD; MERCURY; METHYL ISOBUTYL KETONE; METHYLENE CHLORIDE; MONITORING; PHTHALATES; PROGRESS REPORT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANITARY LANDFILLS; SITE SURVEYS; TOLUENE; WATER POLLUTION; XYLENES; ZINC; ALKYLATED AROMATICS; AROMATICS; CARBOXYLIC ACID SALTS; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELEMENTS; FEDERAL REGION III; HALOGENATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; HAZARDS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROXY COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC ACIDS; KETONES; LAWS; MANAGEMENT; METALS; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHENOLS; POLLUTION LAWS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; USA; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER; WELLS; 540320* - Environment, Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-); 540220 - Environment, Terrestrial- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-); 540120 - Environment, Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-); 560300 - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology; 290300 - Energy Planning & Policy- Environment, Health, & Safety

Citation Formats

. Health assessment for Welsh Road/Barkman Landfill, Honey Brook, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Region 3. CERCLIS No. PAD980829527. Preliminary report. United States: N. p., 1988. Web.
. Health assessment for Welsh Road/Barkman Landfill, Honey Brook, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Region 3. CERCLIS No. PAD980829527. Preliminary report. United States.
. 1988. "Health assessment for Welsh Road/Barkman Landfill, Honey Brook, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Region 3. CERCLIS No. PAD980829527. Preliminary report". United States.
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abstractNote = {The Welsh Road/Barkman Landfill site in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania was an unpermitted residential and commercial refuse disposal facility that operated from 1963 to sometime in the 1980s. After 1977, the landfill continued to operate in defiance of legal action to support a closure plan. Various investigations conducted in the 1980s revealed that industrial and hazardous waste had been accepted by the site. The environmental contamination on-site consists of copper, lead, 1,2-dichloropropane, toluene, chloroform and methylene chloride in drummed wastes; and mercury, toluene, dichlorofluoromethane, methylene chloride, trichlorofluoromethane, 5-methyl-2-hexanone, trichloroethylene, 1,2-dichloroethane, and 1,3,5-cycloheptatriene in groundwater. One time sampling indicated the presence of volatile compounds in air (hydrogen chloride and chloroform). The environmental contamination off-site consists of cadmium in sediment; and chloromethane, chloroform, xylenes, dichlorofluoromethane, 1,1-dichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, p-cresol, toluene, methyl isobutyl ketone, di-n-butyl phthalate, lead, mercury, and zinc in residential well water. 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, soil, sediment, and airborne gases, vapors, and particulate.},
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year = {Fri Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 1988},
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