PUBLIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT
AUSTIN, CITY OF-HOLLY STREET POWER
(a/k/a HOLLY STREET POWER PLANT)
AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS
CERCLIS
# TXD988024014
December 3, 1999
Prepared by:
The Texas Department of Health
Under Cooperative Agreement with the
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ATSDR PUBLIC HEALTH CONCLUSION CATEGORIES
ATSDR's CHILD HEALTH INITIATIVE
| RECOMMENDATIONS | |
TABLE 1: Holly Street Power Plant
Fuel Oil Use 1989-1993
TABLE 2: Summary of TNRCC Modeled and Background
Air Concentrations
TABLE 3: Polychlorinated Biphenyl Sample Results
TABLE 4: Calculated Maximum Magnetic-Field Strengths
TABLE 5: Comparison of Time-Weighted Noise Levels
(Ldn)
TABLE 6: Projected Time-Weighted (Ldn) Noise
Impacts
TABLE 7: Potential Exposure Pathways
TABLE 8: Number of Observed and Expected Cancer
Cases
TABLE 9: Age Distribution for Selected Cancers
in Austin, Texas, 78702
FIGURE 1: Magnetic Field Strengths
Near Holly Power Plant
FIGURE 2: Holly Street Power Plant Site Map
FIGURE 3: U.S. Electric Power Consumption and
Age Adjusted Leukemia Mortality in U.S. Children (ages 0-19), 1920-1990
FIGURE 4: U.S. Electric Power Consumption and
Age Adjusted CNS/Brain Cancer Mortality in U.S. Children (ages 0-19), 1920-1990
