US EPA

1510159 

Journal Article 

Risk Assessment Pilot Study. Phase 3. Naval Construction Battalion Center, Davisville, Rhode Island 

Munns, WR; Mueller, C; Rogers, BA; Benyi, S; Cayula, S 

1993 

NTIS/02989023_2 

GRA and I 

14 

134 

Final draft rept. ed in cooperation with Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, San Diego, CA. Sponsored by Environmental Research Lab., Narragansett, RI. ertake a marine ecological risk assessment at the Naval Construction Battalion Center (NCBC) Davisville, Rhode Island to determine the effect of hazardous waste disposal on Allen Harbor and Narragansett Bay. Allen Harbor, located in Narragansett Bay at NCBC Davisville, was closed to shellfishing by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management because of suspected hazardous waste contamination from a landfill and disposal area adjacent to the harbor. NCBC Davisville was added to the National Priority List in November 1989. Between 1946 and 1972, the 15-acre landfill received a wide variety of wastes, including sewage sludge, solvents, paints, chromic acid, PCB-contaminated waste oils, preservatives, blasting grit, and other municipal and industrial wastes generated at NCBC Davisville and at the Naval Air Station Quonset Point. Another site, also adjacent to Allen Harbor on Calf Pasture Point, was used for disposal of calcium hypochlorite decontaminating solution and chlorides. 

Risk assessment; Hazardous wastes; Waste disposal; Water pollution effects; Aquatic ecosystems; Marine biology; Earth fills; Rhode Island; Military facilities; Shellfish; Municipal wastes; Industrial wastes; Narragansett Bay; Naval Construction Battalion Center; Davisville(Rhode Island); Allen Harbor