Public Health Assessment for Albion Sheridan Township Landfill Albion, CalhounCounty, Michigan, Region 5. CERCLIS No. MID980504450

摘要

The Albion-Sheridan Township Landfill site was placed on the EnvironmentalProtection Agency's National Priorities List on October 4, 1989. Barrels of wastes were found on the surface of the closed landfill in 1986. The groundwater and surface soil at the site are contaminated with various metals and organic chemicals. No contamination associated with the site has reached nearby residential wells. Under current conditions, the site does not pose any apparent public health hazard. The site did pose a public health hazard in the past while it was still accessible because trespassers were possibly exposed to the metals in the surface soil. A potential public health hazard exists for children subject to pica behavior. This public health assessment recommends that the remediation of the site provide for the control of off-site migration of contaminants and that residential and monitoring wells near the site be regularly sampled to detect migration of the contaminant plume.