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Ciba Geigy Health Assessment
(Dover Township) Toms River, New Jersey


Table 5 - Results of metal and selected organic chemical analysis in soil samples collected by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, 1966. Results in milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg, or parts per million).
Data source: NJDHSS, 1997a.


Contaminant

Old Freehold
and Mapletree

Sea Court Mall

Bay and
Vaughn

Bay &
West

Child
Comparison
Value

Arsenic

1.12-4.49

ND-0.943

1.68-4.58

1.6-6.3

20, 0.5 (CREG)

Cadmium

ND-2.91

ND-2.72

ND

ND-2.06

40

Chromium

13.9-19.5

2.95-5.92

8.24-15.5

7.16-28.5

50000(RMEG)

Lead

ND-63.3

ND-21.5

49.9-188

10.8-38.7

None

Mercury

0.035-0.084

ND-0.121

0.037-0.05

0.03-0.102

100

Fluor
anthene

0.25J

ND

0.52J

0.11-0.3J

2000(RMEG)

Pyrene

0.16-0.19J

ND

0.4J

0.15-0.22J

2000(RMEG)

Diethyl-
phthalate

0.22-0.28J

0.29J

ND

ND

40000(RMEG)



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