Public Health Assessment for Johnstown City Landfill, Johnstown, Fulton County,New York, Region 2. CERCLIS No. NYD980506927

摘要

The Johnstown City Landfill was a municipally operated, unlined landfill whichaccepted sanitary, industrial and municipal wastes between 1947 and 1989. A remedial investigaton (RI) was conducted at the site between June 1989 and March 1992. The RI included sampling of residential water supplies, surface soil, groundwater, surface water, leachate seeps, sediments, air, and studies of the hydrogeologic conditions at and near the landfill. Because of past, present and possible future human exposures to contaminants in drinking water and potential (past and present) exposures to contaminants in fish and surface water, the Johnstown City Landfill poses a public health hazard.