Public Health Assessment for Scovil Industrial Landfill (a/k/a Scovill IndustrialLandfill) Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut EPA Facility ID: CT0002265551

摘要

The purpose of this public health assessment is to review available environmentalsampling data and current site conditions to evaluate whether living and/or working on the Scovill Landfill site presents a public health hazard. As part of this evaluation, the pathways by which people may be exposed to environmental contamination are identified and evaluated and community health concerns are addressed. This public health assessment is different from an EPA risk assessment. Under Superfund, EPA conducts a risk assessment that will evaluate the need for environmental clean-up based on established regulatory criteria; whereas, an ATSDR public health assessment evaluates exposures at a site and determines the need for follow-up health actions. The Scovill Landfill site was proposed to EPA's National Priorities List (NPL), or Superfund, on May 11, 2000. This report fulfills ATSDR'S Congressional mandate for conducting a public health assessment within one year of EPA's proposing a site to the NPL.