Health Consultation: Evaluation of Off-Site Environmental Media, Mercer Rubber Company Site, Hamilton Square, Mercer County, New Jersey. EPA Facility ID: NJD002328961, September 27, 2007.

摘要

In February 2004, a concerned citizen petitioned the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) regarding potential environmental exposures to hazardous chemicals associated with the former Mercer Rubber Company, Hamilton Square, Mercer County, New Jersey. The Mercer Rubber Company (and its successors) manufactured rubber products from the 1860s until plant closing in early 1993. The petition was accepted in May 2004. Through a cooperative agreement with the ATSDR, the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) prepared two documents for public comment: a public health assessment, which reviewed the potential for past, present and future environmental exposures to area residents, and a health consultation that reviewed cancer incidence in the community for the time period 1979 through 2001. Two public meetings were held to present the findings of the draft reports.