The site received domestic, trade, and industrial wastes including unrecorded amounts of hazardous waste such as polychlorinated biphenyls, asbestos, mercury, and arsenic.
This review also highlighted six of these substancesmethylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, ethanol, lead, arsenic, and tolueneas the ones with the greatest potential developmental neurotoxicity.
Section 6 also limits or restricts the production of polychlorinated biphenyls, fully halogenated chlorofluoroalkanes, dioxin, asbestos, nitrosating agents, and hexavalent chromium.
Physical qualities of the sediments have been studied, as well as the concentrations of heavy metals, oil based hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
A number of chemicals have also been linked including: polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, organic solvents and a number of pesticides.
