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Wheelabrator - Claremont's Toxic Legacy
1987-2005 |
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8.5 million pounds of toxic chemicals poured into our air and
environment.
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More than 1,000,000 tons of waste turned into toxic smoke and ash.
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More than 300,000 tons of toxic ash from the Wheelabrator incinerator
landfilled near the Sugar River on the Claremont/Newport boarder.
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| Note: These emissions figures are not the result of continuous
monitoring of actual emissions under daily operating conditions. they are
extrapolations of “snap shot” tests performed on stack emissions during optimum
operating conditions. These figures do not include exemptions of emissions
monitoring permitted during start up and shutdown or malfunction of the
incinerator which are actually the times when the greatest amounts of the most
dangerous pollutants – such as dioxins – are emitted. -Neil J. Carman, Ph.D. |
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| Reported Toxic Emissions |
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Particulate matter
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67.7 tons |
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Sulfur dioxide
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644.6 tons |
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Nitrous oxides
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2,638.4 tons |
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Carbon Monoxide
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83.7 tons |
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Non methane hydrocarbons
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3.6 tons |
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Hydrochloric acid
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300.4 tons |
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Dioxins/furans
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0.371 lbs |
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Sulfuric acid
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48.8 tons |
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Hydrogen fluoride
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1.4 tons |
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Volatile organics
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25.6 tons |
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Poly aromatic hydrocarbons
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19.14 tons |
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Poly chlorinated biphenyls
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.85E-02 lbs |
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Lead
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308.8 lbs |
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Nickel
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742.4 lbs |
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Chromium
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17.9 lbs |
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Cadmium
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39.3 lbs |
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Mercury
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3,179.9 lbs |
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Arsenic
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12.8 lbs |
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Cobalt
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42.0 lbs |
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Manganese
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660.0 lbs |
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Copper
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158.5 lbs |
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Zinc
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1,626.7 lbs |
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Beryllium
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0.6 lbs |
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Selenium
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6.0 lbs |
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Emissions totals from Analysis of Air Emissions Wheelabrator Claremont Company
Incinerator 1987-2002; Working on Waste, June 19, 2003. This analysis
was based on records filed with NHDES-ARD.
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| Note: Dioxins are so toxic they are measured in parts per trillion. the
world health organization has stated an amount equal to one to four grains of
rice would be the tolerable daily intake for a million average-sized adults for
a year. (VanLeeuwen, F., Feeley, M., Schrenk, D., Larsen, J., Farland, W.,
Younes, M., 2000. Dioxins: WHO’s tolerable daily intake (TDI) revisited.
Chemosphere 40: 1095-1101). |
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