{Haz Waste Image} 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 and other sites

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.

• Chemical Exposure Fact Sheet (ATSDR) (pdf)

• Guidelines for Residential Clean-up of Broken Thermometers (pdf)

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

• Hazardous Site Assessment Program Services Brochure (pdf)

• Methamphetamine Lab Fact Sheet (pdf)

• Mercury in Schools: Spill Response and Precautions (pdf)

• Metallic Mercury: Health Effects (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

• Connecticut Office of Brownfield Remediation and Development (OBRD)

• Reports on CT Hazardous Waste Sites

• EPA home page

• EPA Brownfields information

• CT Department of Environmental Protection

• National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences

• Community Health Studies Information (CA)

• DEP Contaminated or Potentially Contaminated Sites in CT

Contacts

• Health Questions (860) 509-7740

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