Measure E9: Hazardous Waste Sites

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• As of September 30, 2006, about 0.9 percent of children lived within one mile of a Superfund site listed on the National Priorities List (NPL) that had not yet been cleaned up or controlled, down from about 1.2 percent in 1990. As of September 30, 2006, about 1.8 percent of children lived within one mile of any Superfund site listed on the Superfund NPL.
• Over 1,000 of the approximately 1,600 sites on Superfund’s NPL have reached Construction Completion, indicating that potential for exposure has been significantly reduced and controlled. For these sites, any physical construction necessary to reduce potential exposures has been completed, and other controls are in place to prevent exposure while final cleanup levels are being achieved. Final cleanup has been completed at more than 300 of these sites and they have been removed from the NPL.
• As of 2006, approximately 700,000 children lived within one mile of a Superfund site that had not been cleaned up or controlled since 1990.

Healthy People 2010:

Objective 8-12 of Healthy People 2010 addresses the mitigation of hazardous waste sites on the National Priority List.