Public Health Assessment for Omega Chemical Site (a/k/a Omega ChemicalCorporation) Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, EPA Facility ID: CAD042245001

摘要

The California Department of Health Services (CDHS) has prepared this publichealth assessment under a cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). The public health assessment is a mechanism to provide the community with information on the public health implications of specific hazardous waste sites and to identify those populations for which further health actions or studies are indicated. The Omega Chemical site, which is approximately 40,000 square feet in area, is located between 12504 and 12512 East Whittier Boulveard in the City of Whittier, Los Angeles County, California. Prior to 1976, the site housed several different industrial operations. These included: a bullet manufacturer (until 1963), a business that converted vans to ambulances (1966 to 1971), and a chemical processing facility (1971 to 1976). From 1976 to approximately 1991, the Omega Chemical Corporation and Omega Refrigerant Reclamation (which will be referred to as the Omega site), operated as a spent solvent and refrigerant recycling and treatment facility handling primarily hydrocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons.