Public Health Assessment for Normandy Park Apartments Temple Terrace,211 Hillsborough County, Florida, Region 4. CERCLIS No. FLD984229773

摘要

The Normandy Park Apartments site is in Temple Terrace near Tampa, Florida.211u001eBetween 1953 and 1963, Gulf Coast Lead, now known as Gulf Coast Recycling Inc., 211u001erecycloing Inc., recycled batteries and smelted lead at this site. In 1971, Gulf 211u001eCoast Recycling built the 144-unit Normandy Park Apartments complex. In 1991, an 211u001eapartment resident complained of children playing with battery chips in the soil. 211u001eUpon investigation, local environmental officials discovered high soil lead 211u001econcentrations. The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) addressed the public 211u001ehealth significance of the site in a draft Public Health Assessment distributed 211u001ein 1996. The findings in the report were that Normandy Park Apartments site was a 211u001epublic health hazard in the past because the concentrations of lead found in the 211u001esoil were enough to affect people's health. Residents were exposed to the lead by 211u001eaccidentlly eating small amounts of soil and breathing dust contaminated with 211u001elead. The site was designated as in indeterminate health hazard in the present 211u001ebecause some of the areas with high concentrations of lead in the soil were 211u001ecapped with concrete or wooden decking. The authors did not have enough 211u001einformation to determine if the site was still a public health hazard.