Public Health Assessment for Former Mackenzie Chemical Works Site Central Islip, Suffolk County, New York EPA Facility ID: NYD980753420;Final rept

摘要

The MacKenzie Chemical Works (MCW) site is a light industrial property in the Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York. Several homes adjoin the site to the south and the east, with the nearest being about 50 feet from the site. Between 1948 and 1987, MCW manufactured a variety of products, chiefly fuel additives and food product intermediates. During this time, chemicals (primarily organic chemicals and solvents) were spilled, leaked, or otherwise discharged onto and into the ground at the site. The primary public health concerns associated with this site are the potential for exposure to chemicals in subsurface drainage structures, groundwater, and soil at the site, particularly if site conditions or use change. These potential exposures relate to TCP in groundwater that may migrate to water supply wells in the future. VOCs in soil gas also may migrate into basements of nearby homes. There are no known exposures to contaminants related to this site currently. Some workers and trespassers may have been exposed to residual contaminants in and around the former MCW buildings in the past.