ATLANTA—The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has released its final public health assessment evaluating whether chemicals in soils at the LCP Chemicals Superfund Site in Brunswick, GA, could affect health.

Located on Ross Road, the LCP Chemicals Site consists of 133 acres of dry land and 680 acres of marsh. Numerous industrial activities took place there since 1919, including an oil refinery, a paint manufacturing company, a power plant, and most recently a chlor-alkali plant. This report focuses on soil contamination that remains in dry-land areas and on seafood collected from the Altamaha Canal.

ATSDR concluded that certain dry-land areas of the LCP Chemicals Site are not safe for residential or business development because mercury, lead, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and dioxins remain in soil at potentially harmful levels. To reduce the risk of mercury and PCB exposure from fish caught and eaten from the Altamaha Canal, ATSDR recommends people follow the state’s fish advisory for the lower Turtle River.

The public health assessment can be viewed at: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lcp

Copies of the public health assessment can be viewed at the following locations:

Glynn Environmental Coalition
4472 New Jesup Highway
Brunswick, GA 31520
912-466-0934 (call for apt)

Brunswick County Public Library
208 Gloucester Street
Brunswick, Ga 31520

Selden Park Recreation Center
3401 Ross Road
Brunswick, GA 31520

For more information about ATSDR’s work at the LCP Chemicals Superfund Site, persons can call 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636).

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ATSDR, a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, evaluates the potential for adverse human health effects due to exposure to hazardous substances in the environment.