Exposure to Tetrachloroethylene Via Contaminated Drinking Water Pipes in Massachusetts: A Predictive Model

Authors

Thomas Webler, Clark University
Halna Szejnwald Brown, Clark University

Document Type

Article

Abstract

A computer model was developed to estimate exposure to tetrachloroethylene leaching from drinking-water pipes in Massachusetts between 1968 and 1979. The model was to be used for an epidemiologic study of cancer in five communities in Massachusetts. This model assigned a relative cumulative exposure score to each individual participant in the study, based on the geometry, size, age, and water flow through the water pipe that supplied a particular household and on the individual's duration of residence in that household. The results of modeling showed a wide range of exposure levels among the study participants. The epidemiologic study is described in the accompanying paper by Aschengrau et al.3. © 2016 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Title

Archives of Environmental Health

Publication Date

1-1-1993

Volume

48

Issue

5

First Page

293

Last Page

297

ISSN

0003-9896

DOI

10.1080/00039896.1993.9936716

Repository Citation

Webler, Thomas and Brown, Halna Szejnwald, "Exposure to Tetrachloroethylene Via Contaminated Drinking Water Pipes in Massachusetts: A Predictive Model" (1993). Sustainability and Social Justice. 432.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/432