Atlanta- The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) will hold a community meeting Thursday June 11 about the public health response for the Kingston coal ash release.
The health response is a public health assessment (PHA) to evaluate health at a community level. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the agency PHA process. Presenters at this meeting will not be able to evaluate nor address individual health problems; their work on the PHA will evaluate health at a community level. The results of the PHA will be available in late 2009.
The meeting is open to the public. It will be held on Thursday June 11, 2009, from 6:00p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Roane State Community College, O'Brien Building, Room 101, 276 Patton Lane, Harriman, TN. Presentations will begin at 6 p.m., followed by time for discussion with representatives from ATSDR and TDH.
A media availability session will be held prior to the meeting from 4:30p.m. to 5:00p.m. at the same location.
For more information about the community meeting, please contact:
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Bonnie Bashor, TDH Director of Environmental Epidemiology, or David Borowski, Assistant Director, at 615-741-7247 or toll free at 1-800-404-3006.
- Trent LeCoultre, ATSDR Site Team Leader, at 770-488-3799 or La Freta Dalton, ATSDR Health Communications Specialist, at 770-488-0711.
ATSDR, a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, evaluates the human health effects of exposure to hazardous substances.
Media inquiries: 770-488-0700 or atsdrmediainquiries@cdc.gov
ATSDR Web site: www.atsdr.cdc.gov