Public Health Assessment for Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply Company Brooklyn Center, Hennepin County, Minnesota, EPA Facility ID: MND044799856, August 29, 2002

摘要

Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) staff were requested by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Superfund Program staff to prepare this Public Health Assessment for the West Area of the Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply Company site in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. The Joslyn site is a former wood treating operation. Investigations conducted in the West Area from as far back as the 1940s have documented releases of contaminants from the former Joslyn wood treating operation and its predecessors. Surface soils, sediments, and surface water in some parts of the West Area are contaminated with pentachloyophenol (PCP), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and dioxins at levels that are well above current applicable state and federal human health and environmental screening criteria. The extent of this contamination has not been fully defined, and off-site contamination is possible. Potential impacts to Twin Lakes cannot be ruled out based on available information and the limitations of existing data.