[CPEO-BIF] Hopewell Junction (NY) health assessment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Site poses increased, but low risk of cancer
East Fishkill residents pan draft report

By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
November 21, 2006

Some residents of the Hopewell Precision Superfund site in East Fishkill 
may face an increased risk of getting cancer because of exposure to 
toxic chemicals in the groundwater, according to a draft government 
health assessment released Monday.

The state Health Department and federal Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry conducted the study as part of the government response 
to the Superfund site. Residents can comment on it until Jan. 19, after 
which it could be revised.

The health assessment considers a worst-case scenario — that residents 
were exposed to the highest detected levels for each of the 29 years 
since chemicals were dumped. Because contaminants move through the 
groundwater slowly, few if any people would have been exposed for that long.

The chance of developing cancer was deemed low, meaning one additional 
cancer case could be expected for every 10,000 to 1 million people 
exposed to these levels. The report dismisses potential cumulative risks 
of exposure to the multiple chemicals found in both air and water as 
"unlikely."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS04/611210320/1006/NEWS01

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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