Public Health Advisory: E.C. Electroplating, (a/k/a Garfield Chromium Groundwater Contamination Site), Garfield, Bergen County, New Jersey. EPA Facility ID: NJD002006773

摘要

On July 21, 2010, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advised both the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) that they had preliminary data indicating that elevated levels (2,640,000 micrograms per square meter (ig/m2)) of hexavalent chromium were found in a basement at a mixed use (commercial/residential) property near the E.C. Electroplating site in Garfield, New Jersey. On August 5, 2010, U.S. EPA provided ATSDR and NJDHSS with the validated data. That data provided a basis for a health consultation as well as an evaluation of the public health implications of exposures to hexavalent chromium in surface dust. ATSDR has determined that the current exposures emanating from or near the E. C. Electroplating site warrant the issuance of a Public Health Advisory. U.S. EPA found that groundwater contaminated with high levels of hexavalent chromium had entered the basements of some of the properties located above a contaminated groundwater plume. The one basement at the mixed-use property referenced above contained highly elevated levels of hexavalent chromium.