Health Consultation: New Bedford Kidney Cancer Follow-Up Investigation, Rodney Metals (a/k/a Allegheny Rodney Stip Division), EPA Facility ID: MAD001067941 and Brittany Dyeing and Printing Corporation, EPA Facility ID: MAD001014612, New Bedford, Bristol C

摘要

This report provides results of a follow-up investigation of the pattern of kidney cancer in the South End area of New Bedford. In July 2003, the Community Assessment Program (CAP) of the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) completed an evaluation of cancer incidence in the South End area of New Bedford to investigate community concerns about the possible role that environmental exposures related to the Allegheny Rodney Company (also known as Rodney Metals) and Brittany Dyeing and Printing Corporation (a.k.a. Brittany Dye) may play in the incidence of cancer in the neighborhoods adjacent to the facilities (ATSDR 2003). Rodney Metals and Brittany Dye are located in the South End area of New Bedford, census tract 6528, on East Rodney French Boulevard to the south of Butler Street and east of Swan Street.