Public Health Assessment Naval Air Engineering Center, Lakehurst (a/k/a Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst) Lakehurst, Ocean County, New Jersey. EPA Facility ID: NJ7170023744

摘要

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is required by law to conduct public health assessments (PHAs) for all sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA's) National Priorities List (NPL), USEPA placed Naval Air Engineering Station (NAES) Lakehurst on the NPL in 1987. This led to the Navy conducting extensive remediation activities to reduce levels of environmental contamination on base property. This PHA evaluates whether the contamination levels at NAES Lakehurst were health hazards to base personnel, base residents, and local community members in the past, currently, or in the future. After reviewing numerous base documents, discussing health concerns with community members, and meeting with base personnel, ATSDR identified four key concerns regarding how people might be exposed to contamination at NAES Lakehurst. These concerns are (1) groundwater contamination; (2) the presence of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and chemical warfare material (CWM) on base property; (3) potential radiological contamination in deer meat; and (4) air contamination.