Public Health Assessment for General Electric Site-Former Oxbows (a/k/a GE-Housatonic River) Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. EPA Facility ID: MAD002084093.

摘要

The Former Oxbows site of the General Electric (GE) site in Pittsfield, Massachusetts is one of 10 areas being evaluated in separate public health assessments and health consultations. In addition, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) is conducting or has conducted other health activities (e.g., descriptive analysis of cancer incidence data, ongoing serum polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) analyses for Pittsfield area residents), the results of which will be incorporated into the summary public health assessment for the GE sites. The Former Oxbows site comprises five former oxbows: A, B, and C southwest of Silver Lake, and J and K southeast of the lake. This site was created in the early 1940s when some Housatonic River Oxbows, and low-lying areas were separated from the active course of the river and subsequently filled with various materials from GE and other unknown sources. Most of the former oxbows that are being evaluated as part of this health assessment are vegetated and all are currently uninhabited.