2005 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 27 Jan 2005 21:06:42 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Cheshire (CT) health assessment
 
Cheshire’s tainted public water, soil not a cancer risk, report says

Ann DeMatteo
New Haven Register (CT)
January 27, 2005

CHESHIRE - The final draft of a public health assessment of whether contaminated soil and water posed a cancer risk to residents has upheld an earlier conclusion that they did not.
The state Department of Public Health has released a 115-page report that reviewed data from the town's public water supply, as well as 17 industrial, commercial or landfill sites and the Connecticut Tumor Registry, to determine if exposures to contaminants caused adverse health effects.


The report said that an unknown source contaminated public drinking water supplies in well fields in the north and south parts of town from the late 1970s to the late 1980s, but the average exposure was not at a level to touch off cancer in residents.

The Regional Water Authority found trichloroethylene, a common industrial solvent, and dichloropropane in the water. The water authority shut the well fields and treated the water before reopening the fields. The water supply is now deemed safe.

"There was exposure to TCE in the past, but we don't think they were large enough that increased disease in the community would have resulted," said Meg Harvey, a state epidemiologist.

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For the entire article, see http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13833576&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=517514&rfi=6&xb=pigos
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