Health Assessment for Algoma City Landfill, Algoma, Wisconsin, Region 5. CERCLIS No. WID980610380

摘要

The Algoma City Landfill is listed on the National Priorities List. The site is located approximately three miles southwest of the city of Algoma. In 1969, Algoma and surrounding communities began using the landfill for municipal and industrial waste disposal until 1983 when the site was closed and capped. Contaminants recovered from monitoring well samples collected in 1984 consisted of the following: arsenic (1.5 ppb), cadmium (2.4 ppb), copper (7.3 ppb), 1,1,2,2-tetra-chloroethane (2.2 ppb), trichloroethane (2.2 ppb), benzene (3.9 ppb), xylene (15 ppb). Based on the available information, the site is considered to be of potential public health concern because of the risk to human health posed by the possibility of exposure to hazardous substances via contaminated groundwater, surface water, air and soil/sediments.