Friday, July 3, 2009
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) will fund a local health study to evaluate potential health effects from exposure to manganese. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has recommended this next step after completing a year-long air investigation in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Representatives from ATSDR and EPA will be in the Marietta area in early July to discuss the findings of the air investigation and the plans for the new study.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
As their year-long Marietta Air Investigation in the Mid-Ohio Valley enters its final phase, the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has launched a Web site for area residents to view updated site information, including air sampling results.
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Friday, March 9, 2007
As part of the air quality investigation of the Marietta Air Emissions Site in Ohio, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has added additional air monitoring stations. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will operate the air monitors and perform the laboratory analyses in the year-long data collection designed to show whether chemical emissions from five facilities in the former Union Carbide industrial complex (Chevron/Phillips, Eramet Marietta, Inc., Eveready, American Municipal Power Ohio, Solvay) may affect human health.
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Monday, May 9, 2005
Exposure to site-related chemicals in on-site buildings, soil, groundwater, surface water, storm water or stream sediment is not expected to cause harmful health effects for people who live or work near the Central Chemical Site in Hagerstown, Md., says the public comment version of the public health assessment released by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). The document will be available for public review and comment through June 10.
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Thursday, May 20, 2004
ATSDR will hold a public meeting May 24, 2004, to update Marietta, Ohio, community members about ATSDR's air modeling and other environmental health activities in Marietta. The meeting will be 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. in the Washington State Community College Graham Auditorium, 710 Colegate Dr., Marietta.
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Thursday, February 19, 2004
The final version of a public health consultation on the Washington County Air Quality Site in Marietta, Ohio, has been issued by ATSDR. On the basis of lack of data, the agency categorizes the Washington County site as an indeterminate public health hazard.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2003
ATSDR staff to hold community meeting and question and answer session in Marietta, Ohio regarding air quality issues near the former Union Carbide facility on Route 7 in Washington County, Ohio.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2003
A public health consultation on the Weyerhaeuser Pulp and Paper Mill site in Plymouth, N.C., has been issued by ATSDR for public review. On the basis of lack of data, the agency has categorized the Weyerhaeuser site as an indeterminate public health hazard.
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Friday, January 24, 2003
The public comment version of ATSDR's public health consultation for the View-Master Factory Supply Well site in Beaverton, Ore., is now available. ATSDR concludes that past exposure to TCE through drinking water from the site's well might have resulted in adverse health effects among former View-Master workers. Written comments from the public will be accepted through Feb. 28, 2003.
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Thursday, August 23, 2001
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, has prepared a Public Health Consultation for the Bucks Harbor Air Force Radar Tracking Station site. A Public Health Consultation is a way for ATSDR to respond quickly to a need for health information on toxic substances and to make recommendations for actions to protect the public's health.
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Thursday, August 23, 2001
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, has prepared a Public Health Consultation for the Bucks Harbor Air Force Radar Tracking Station site.
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Friday, July 20, 2001
ATSDR announced today the release of the final version of its public health assessment for the Naval Construction Battalion Center site in Davisville, Rhode Island.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2001
ATSDR announced today the availability of the final version of its health assessment for the Molycorp site in Washington, Pennsylvania.
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Thursday, February 1, 2001
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced today the availability of the final version of its health assessment for the Georgia-Pacific Corporation Hardwood Sawmill site in Washington County, North Carolina.
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