VOC sampling locations table for Ground Zero area, Jan 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Cohort studies looking at multiple health endpoints are beginning to evaluate health effects in populations of workers involved in the rescue and cleanup efforts.

Studies are imder way to investigate many different mental health outcomes including post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma to children, behavioral changes in adolescents, changes in therapy adherence in HIV/AIDs patients, impacts in particular NYC minority populations, and impacts in occupational groups involved in the cleanup and rescue efforts.

While monitoring air quality is complete at the WTC site, NYSDEC will continue its routine ambient air monitoring at a number of nearby sites and at the sites around New York City, including a number of schools.

It is hoped that when they are completed, these studies will provide a more complete picture of actual health outcomes. This current report can only evaluate exposures based upon available monitoring data and results, and what these exposures could mean to human health. When the health studies are completed, it will be very useful for EPA to go back and reassess how well the evaluations in this report identified, or didn’t identify, a human health concern. This retrospective look will help EPA and other health agencies to do a better job assessing health risks and outcomes in the future. In the meantime, EPA will continue to address potential health risks as needed. EPA will provide a more thorough report, looking at additional contaminants and conducting further evaluations as needed.

DRAFT-DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE 137 October 2002

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