The Site Assessments and Chemical Risk Unit addresses health concerns about hazardous waste sites in Connecticut through a Cooperative Agreement grant from the Agency For Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). These sites include: 

• Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) sites 

• State Superfund sites 

• Brownfields sites 

• Landfills

• Other locations with contamination

The Site Assessments and Chemical Risk Unit evaluates environmental data and provides education to address the public health impacts from exposure to hazardous substances at sites.

Locations where CTDPH has evaluated exposure to contamination.

Special Projects

SAFER Day Care Program: An initiative to ensure safe day care centers by identifying/addressing contamination at or near new or operating daycares, and to help daycares be environmentally safe & green in their operation.

Are There Contaminated Sites in Your Community? Workshop (11/15/2013)

Publications

• Asbestos & Structure Fires (pdf)

• Chemical Exposure Fact Sheet (ATSDR) (pdf)

• Guidelines For Clean-Up Of Broken Thermometers from Hard Surfaces (pdf)

• Guidelines for the Clean-up of Connecticut Methamphetamine Labs (pdf)

• Hazardous Site Assessment Program Services Brochure (pdf)

• Methamphetamine Lab Fact Sheet (pdf)

• Mercury Action Levels for Indoor Spills (pdf)

• Mercury Spill Response in Schools (pdf)

• Metallic Mercury: Health Effects Fact Sheet (pdf)

• Municipal Waste Landfill Gases (pdf)

• Public Health and Brownfields (pdf)

• Pressure Treated Wood and Pesticides (pdf)

• Pressure Treated Wood and Arsenic (pdf)

Links

• ATSDR home page

• ATSDR ToxFaQs fact sheets

• ATSDR Brownfields Information

• Connecticut Office of Brownfield Remediation and Development (OBRD)

• GroundWater and Well Contamination

• EPA Brownfields information

• Reports on CT Hazardous Waste Sites

• EPA home page

• CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

• National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences

• Community Health Studies Information (CA)

• DEEP Contaminated or Potentially Contaminated Sites in CT

• Cancer Clusters Information Sheet (pdf)

• Cancer Cluster Technical Brief (pdf) 

Contacts

• Health Questions (860) 509-7740

• Information about specific hazardous waste sites (CT DEP) (860) 424-3705