Sustainability and Social Justice
Exposure to Tetrachloroethylene Via Contaminated Drinking Water Pipes in Massachusetts: A Predictive Model
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