Arsenic, benzene and vinyl chloride found amidst &D waste at 30 Ohio landfills.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency found a lot more than old concrete, bricks and lumber at 30 landfills it inspected. The EPA says arsenic, benzene and vinyl chloride – all suspected carcinogens – and lead, which can damage the brain and nervous system, were found in the water trickling through the rubble.
At each of the surveyed landfills, including two in central Ohio, officials found as many as 29 pollutants at levels that exceed drinking-water health limits, pollution standards for streams, or both.
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